Search Results: Titles starting with V from Douglas Books

New York: Macmillan Company, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket (assume none issued). Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, clean with only hints of rubbing to extremities but spine, plus very thin line of rubbing towards front edge of spine from below title, strip across top front slightly faded. xxxviii + 620 + (5, notices of other books by author); the major fault is excision of front end-paper, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked except for edge-tanning throughout and light ingrained dustiness to top edge, bottom edges of author notices also have two brown marginal stains of little consequence. Very scarce. This is the original American edition, a UK edition was issued more or less simultaneously using original American sheets but with different t.p. 14 cm x 20 cm

Aldershot etc.: Avebury, 1991. 1st Edition . Laminated Boards. Fine. 15.5 Cms x 22 Cms. xi+196, virtually a mint copy of this important work which was issued in the Avebury Series in Philosophy of Science.

London etc.: Hutchinson Radius, 1990. 1st rep.(1st ed.-1989, 1st Italian 1987) . Blue Cloth. Fine (-)/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 24 Cms. ix+205; near pristine but, if you want to be picky, two tiny brown flecks to textblock fore-edge. An account of the lost library of Alexandria and sources of information about it. 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: Fabian Society, 1941. 1st Edition . Pamphlet. Good. 16 pp. Fabian Tract series No.254. Green printed card covers with lists etc. ins. fr. & back. Staples rusting & vertical crease, but not disastrous and otherwise clean & unworn. A passionate critique of the crude anti-German propaganda of Vansittart's 'Black Record' as counter-productive and inaccurate. Scarce. 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.

New York: International Universities Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Orange Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 15 Cms x 23.5 Cms. unpag.prelims+753, a pristine copy in clean, unclipped but edge-rubbed jacket. Pretty much encircles the entire area from loosely psychoanalytic perspective. Will weigh about 1.4 kg when wrapped, so allow for extra postage.

Northport (NY) Dublin : Costello Publishing Dominican Publications, 1996. 1st Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Glossy paperback cover fine. xiv + 610, would be fine but for edge tanning throughout, presumably common to all or most copies. 13.5 cm x 21 cm

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 1st ed. . Light Orange Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xii+161; internally pristine in clean bright unworn covers; unclipped jacket clean and unworn. Very wide ranging set of essays, often quite dense, covering pretty much every major social theorist and philosopher of the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries, including Popper, Saussure, Althusser, Durkheim and Habermas (with scornful passage on Jung en route). 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: Studio Vista, 1972. 1st Thus . Green Cloth. Fine-/VG-. 18 Cms x 25.5 Cms. 142 pp. black & white plates pp.33-64; ony fault I can see is slight dustiness in places on top edge, unclipped jacket clean but top edge slightly rubbed and curling outwards, small nick bottom front joint - will seal in protective wrapper when ordered.

London: Tavistock Press, 1964. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+xiv+373; internally fine, covers clean and minimally worn bar sl.rubbing top sp., two sm.faint patches of pigment loss near bottom sp. from a splash, of little consequence. No postage reduction for sales less than £10.

London: Tavistock Press, 1964. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+xiv+373; 'review copy' scrawled top fr.free endpaper plus sm. number top same, otherwise internally fine, covers clean and virtually unworn. No postage reduction for sales less than £10.

London: Trubner & Co., 1866. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Good-VG/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. iv+357+(2, notices of two other works by author); This is a library binding by Leeds Public Libraries with their attractive heraldic plate to front pastedown, withdrawn stamp to facing end-paper and loan sheet + small date stamp to rear end-paper, also their colourless round impressed stamp from 1st leaf diminishing through to p.10 and from p.346 through to final leaf - this quite inoffensive. The main text-block is clean, tight and unmarked. Red library bound cloth covers clean and unworn with gilt spine lettering inc. lib. number. Despite being an ex-library copy in library binding this remains a very acceptable reference copy of this quite scarce work, the entries in which are often quite extended and thoroughly researched (over 2 pp. on 'bayonet', and many over a full page, e.g. 'namby-pamby' and 'pantaloon'). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net… Read More

Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1929. 1st ed. . Printed blue Card. Good-VG. 17 Cms x 25 Cms. 95 pp, 5 text photos; t.p. through to p.3 have scattered foxing, sm.pencil sig. bottom t.p. 'G.Adler' (Gerhard Adler?), gutter opening between pp.80/81, but secure, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked, covers somewhat worn and edge-browned, though no significant loss, fr.cover and most of sp.laminated to protect spine wear, scrap of bookseller's label bottom back corner. Slipped in 8 pp.carbon copy of book review in German, with inked corrections and final page & a half in ms., a sm.sheet of pencil notes also slipped in. These look to be in same hand as signature (the 'e' and 'l' are certainly identical). Default assumption has to be that these are the eminent Jungian Gerhard Adler's notes. He was in Berlin when it was published and Jung is mentioned (but only once I think) in the review. Extremely scarce study of criminal twins.

Bern (Berne): Buchdruckerei Stampfli & Cie, 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. brown marbled boards with gilt-lettered brown cloth spine, clean with just slight touches of edge-rubbing. t.p. + 266, numerous tables; author's name written above title but 'Vorbemerkung; also signed 'Dr. Moser', early oval black stamp 'Bundesamt fur Sozialversicherung' top outer corner of t.p. otherwise clean, tight and unmarked though faint edge-tanning throughout., binder's label 'R. Kramer. Buchbinderei Bern' top outer corner fr. paste-down. 21 cm x 27.5 cm

Schwarzenburg: H.Gerber, 1939. 1st Edition . Printed Card. Good/very Good. 15 Cms x 22.5 Cms. Inaugural-Dissertation University of Berne. 104pp. Some edge browning throughout, sm.nick towards top sp., otherwise clean, tight & undamaged. 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.

Oxford, London, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Half yellow and black cloth with gilt sp. lettering, f/piece + 256,photo illustrations to pp. 121 - 138; no obvious faults, unclipped jacket virtually pristine (will add protective sleeve when ordered. Slipped in joint review of this and a Peter Medawar book from Sunday Times 5th Sept. 1990 by Christopher Potter. This book is by Peter Medawar's widow. 15 cm x 21.5 cm

London etc.: Geoffrey Cumberledge Oxford University Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Green cloth with gilt sp. lettering, clean and unworn but marred by yellow Lewis's Library label top centre fr. which continues onto top fr. pastedown, with their bookseller's sm. label to bottom. a faint date stamp. xxvi + 151, 139 text figs, full page, some with more than one per page; small date stamp top back end-paper and faint hint of border tanning throughout, probably common to most copies, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked internally. 14 cm x 22 cm

London etc.: Geoffrey Cumberledge Oxford University Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine -/No Jacket. Pristine green cloth with gilt sp. lettering. xxvi + 151, 139 text figs, full page, some with more than one per page; main fault, if such it be, is 'Printer's Library/ Please Return + OUP logo label centre fr. pastedown (7 cm x 2 cm) over-stamped with small red oval 'Withdrawn by Order), otherwise faint hint of border tanning throughout, probably common to most copies. 14 cm x 22 cm

Orono, Maine: University of Maine University Press, 1930. 1st ed. (?) . Grey printed boards, cloth sp.. VG-Fine/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. 163 pp., 21 text photos (I make it); front inscr. 'Presented to - John J Webster By Prof. D. Katz 1934' otherwise internally clan, tight and unmarked, covers clean and unworn, slight edge browning in places, grey cloth spine (unlettered) a little darkened. Issued as University of Maine Studies. Second Series, No.14. Six lectures by this highly original adn creative German psychologist including, besides the title lecture, 'Psychological Problems of Hunger and Appetite with Men and Animals' (which reproduces Galton-style composite portraits comparing vegetarians and meat eaters) 'Chacterology and Animal Psychology', auditory localization, 'On the Psychology of the Human Hand' and 'Conversations with Children'; the journal offprint, similarly inscribed on front, is in blue issue wraps from Vol.78 'Memoirs &… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1888. 1st Edition . Dark Blue Cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. f/piece w. tissue+3 (list & puff for series by Jusserand)+7-192. clean, unmarked copy, covers slightly surface rubbed in paces otherwise clean and minimally worn. . Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

New York: Viking Press Studio Book, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Green cloth covers with gilt sp. lettering marred only but bump to bottom outer fr. corner. Decorated end-paper. 160 pp.,lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous full page col. plates, inc. in pagination: colourless round private ex-lib. stamp to top outer corner of t.p. (Derek Gair Gibson,an eminent British cardiologist, d. 2021), the faintest hint of edge-tanning throughout. Unclipped jacket clean but marred by two tears and sl. creasing toi back plus nick to top sp., will internally close these and add protective sleeve when ordered. Landscape format. 25 cm x 21,5 cm