Search Results: Titles starting with R from Douglas Books

Saratoga Springs NY: Skidmore College, 1971. 1st ed. . Paperback. Good+. 13 Cm x 21.5 Cm. Suzanne Osterweil. 200 pp., inc. 1 full page portrait of Laing; front cover faintly soiled to front bottom outer corner and outer edge, also three brown marks to bottom margin t.p., otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in unworn cover. Salmagundi subtitled 'A Quarterly Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences. 12 papers in all, 2 co-authored. Uncommon in U.K.

Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1977. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. x+214; pristine bar some faint dustness to top edge of textblock, being pedantic, paper used up to p.54 is slightly darker stock. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Hanover NH: University of New Hampshire/ University Press of New England, 1977. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine-/Fine-. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. f/piece+xiv+393; internally only flaw is small gilt ownership label top front pastedown, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; only jacket flaw is slight fading to top back, along back joint and to spine - this only faintly visible against light green paper (will seal in protective wrapper when ordered). Useful collection of papers by the leading historian of psychology of the post-WW2 decades. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: B.T. Batsford . Assume 1st ed. but unstated . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. BALE, Stweart and others (photographs). Black cloth with gilt lettering and image to fr., gilt lettering to sp., marred by a small chip top sp., touch of rubbing bottom same. Illustrated end-papers (different image of Queen Mary at each end). Unpaginated but c. 60 pp., un-numbered illustrations throughout, recto rear end-paper blank headed 'Autographs', but none present; internally fine. Undated but assume 1936 or 1937. 17 cm x 21.5 cm

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918. 1st ed. . White Cl. spine & brown boards. VG/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 20 Cms. viii+230+(2, pub.notices), uncut edges, occ.unopened; very faint hints of browning to endpapers & half-title, rear endpaper has long vertical wrinkle, otherwise an excellent copy for age, white sp.cloth clean and covers generally clean & undamaged, sm.patch of surface loss towards top outer front corner. Covers now in protective 'envelope' type cover.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1894. 1st ed. . Red & gilt series binding. Good-VG. 13 Cm X 19 Cm. viii+424; lacking fr.free endpaper, series title has black surface marks offset from fr. pastedown, early ink sig.top t.p., otherwise clean, tight & unmarked interannly, series covers good, sl.sp.end rubbing & sp. just a tad darkened. Issued as International Scientific Series LXVI.

New York & London: McGraw-Hill, 1934. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG-Fine for Age/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. viii+252; internally clean, tight & unmarked bar trivial trace of erased pencilling top front endpaper, covers unworn bar slight top spine rubbing, generally clean but a few small surface marks of little significance. An interesting collection of 14 chapters, 9 on specific cases (e.g. Japanese, Hawaiians, African Americans) and 5 on general issues, authors include Robert Park, Franklin Frazier and Charles S. Johnson. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Watts, 1931. 1st ed. . Grey printed Card. VG. 10.5 Cms x 16.5 Cms. 72 pp., lecture list facing t.p. (i.e.p.2); a few brown spots of little consequence to prelims, t.p. and last few leaves as well as etxtblock edges, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked internally in clean unnworn stiff grey card covers.

New York: Henry Holt, 1929. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xvi+394; early small booksller's label bottom fr.endpaper, sm.brown speck to textblock fore-edge, otherwise clean, tight, undamaged and unmarked in clean bright unworn cover. An important pioneering study of the topic at the time when the 'paradigm' was shifting from race differences studies to race prejudice studies. Lasker was director of a collaborative group called 'The Inquiry' concerned with problems of 'human relations'.

Johannesburg: Oxford University Press for University of the Witwatersrand, 1937. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xiv+328, num.tables, histograms etc.; Pietmaritzburg bookseller's sm.label bottom fr.pastedown, thin strip of marginal browning to last 5 leaves and recto rear endpaper where it spreads to become light foxing across top and outer margin - mostly very faint though, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked internally; covers generally clean, top.sp.sl.rubbed, bottom more so. Despite faults, which do not really amount to much, a very acceptable copy nudging VG rating. Uncommon outside South Africa, this was an important and, for the time, highly enlightened work in which MacCrone advanced a 'frontier hypothesis' to explain rabid racism and invoked Freudian concepts where appropriate, in some ways an anticipation of the 'authoritarian personality' concept.

New York and London: Harper & Bros, 1935. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine- for age/Poor. 14 Cms x 21 Cms. x+367; small faint trivial marks top inner corners of front pastedown and endpaper, faint hint of browning to end gutters, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; jacket clean but ragged and chipped, currently in wraparound perspex protector as acquired but will attempt to repair and replace with protective sleeve when ordered. Classic mid-1930s statement of the anti-race differences in psychology case.and hugely influential. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 1992. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xx+401; as new. Uncommon in UK. Papers on a variety of topics including slavery and racism, Mary Wollestonecraft, concepts of social class etc. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. 1st reprint month of Publication . Pamphlet. Good. 12 Cms x 18.5 Cms. 32 pp. Oxford Pamhlets on World Affairs No.5. Tight & clean internally, covers clean but a little rubbed & worn at corners. Largely derived from the book We Europeans, which Huxley produced with A.C. Haddon, this pamphlet strove to distil the case against the meaningful divisibility of the European population into 'races' , attacking the notion of an 'Aryan' race and anti-semitism. Significant little historical document. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: William Heinemann, 1919. 1st ed. . Dark Grey Cloth. Good (-)/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xix+300; tanned edges throughout, ex-London County Council library with library card in pocket + regulations, round stamp, and other library residues on front pastedown and endpaper, the rounddark mauve library stampis repeated on half-title, t.p., dedication page, top Preface page and rear pastedown which also has a lib.number, top edge a little dust-marked, otherwise internally clean and unmarked but paper quality is somewhat poor, covers clean, slight rubbing to most extremities, spine lettering darkened to near illegibility. A handy reference or working copy for those working the early 20th century history and development of racial and nationalist thinking. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1951. 1st ed. (as stated verso t.p.) . Grey Cloth. Fine/VG. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. xi+605+vi (index); can see no reason for rating this less than fine - clean, tight, bright, unmarked etc.; unclipped jacket generally clean with only hints of top edge rubbing, spine and top front slightly sun-faded but this hardly shows against yellow paper (will add protective sleeve when ordered). An important and remarkably broad collection of texts providing an overview of the issue on the eve of the Civil Rights campaign. Authos represneted include Ralph Bunche, W.I.Thomas, Kurt Lewin, Horace Cayton, Frenkel-Brunswik,Guy Johnson, Cooley, Robert Park, Bogardus and W.E.Du Bois. Coverage is not confined to African Americans - native Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Mexicans, Chinese, French Canadians and Puerto Ricans are all the concern of at least one reading. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Miami: Mnemosyne Publishing, 1969. 1st reprint, 1st ed.-1906 . Green Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xvi+320; trivial hints of spine end rubbing, small red mark top front gutter of zero significance, otherwise pristine. The first modern re-issue of this classic French attack on doctrines of innate race differences in ability and the dominance of 'milieu' over physiology. An important text in the history of anti-racism. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Religious Tract Society. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 13 Cm x 18.5. 196 pp., endpapers browning, occ. foxing patches elsewhere, mainly to 'contents' pp., first few pp. of text, final leaf and textblock edges; otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean, bright & unworn. Undated but from footnote citations must be post-1922, probably mid-late 1920s (I should note that a couple of dealers have guessed c.1910, which is clearly wrong). Author was based in Nagpur, India. Scarce.

New York: Whittleley House, 1931. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine-/No Jacket (none Issued?). 14 Cms x 20.5 Cms. xiv+259, 17 text figs; small name stamp top front endpaper, traces of dust to top edge of textblock, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers (small black smudge btoom outer end of textblock). Long overlooked this is actually a crucial work marking the turning point in the attitude of mainstream US psychology to the 'race differences' notion; written by the most prolific of the researchers on the topic during the 1920s it actually concludes, contrary to what the subtitle might suggest, that they cannot be proved to exist - Garth in effect throws in the towel here. No copies in UK and most US copies ex-lib. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Boston etc.: D.C.Heath, 1934. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine-/VG for age. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. Issued in the Heath Social Relations Series. series list+x+590, top edge bluye; faint browning to endpapers off-set from jacket wraparounds, otherwise no significant flaws inside or out, covers bright; unclipped jacket clean with a few minor edge nicks and chips, spine a little darkened (will add protective sleeve when ordered) Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Tavistock Publications, 1969. 2nd Printing (1st-1967) . Brown Cloth. Fine/Good-Very Good. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xiv+434, 18 text figs 2 maps, top edge yellow; no obvious faults with book, jacket clipped with minor edge-nicking, spine bottom rubbed and slight edge-curling, but clean and will add protectiuve sleeve when ordered. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.