Psychology

Munich: Lucas Straub (first edition)., 1652. Hardcover. Poor. Folding plate of veins and arteries (one only of 6 plates). . Small quarto marbled paper boards, spine re-backed in old leather on 5 cords with 19th century red leather gilt title label laid on. First edition of this important early work on melancholia, neurology and alchemy - [xviii] +524pp +[11]pp index & errata +3 leaves blank. Lacks engraved titlepage (supplied in facsimile) and all but one of 6 plates. Printed Title and following 340pp badly cropped at fore-edge with loss of last letter of each line of title and most of marginal guide notes, remaining pages affected by light marks of previous damp at fore-edge. *Damaged and defective copy of very rare first edition of this important work on melancholia and neurology. Geiger came from a prestigious dynasty of German physicians working in Bavaria & Munich. Melancholia was then generally considered to result from excess black bile, which Galen had earlier described as the culprit in… Read More

Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel. Reynal & Hitchcock First Edition, 1941. MYSTERY. Used. Good/Good rare unclipped dust jacket Original $2.00 item price appears on the back flap. now protected in a mylar wrap.

New York : Macmillan Company, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First American edition, first printing. Authorized translated from the third German edition by A A Brill. Some wear but overall in very good condition.

Rare/collectable.
Good condition. Completely clean and unmarked text. Lots of illustrations. Ex-library with some markings and a tear from sticker removal on spine. (see pictures)

Rare/collectible, 1950, first edition. Used - ex-library otherwise very good condition. Clean inside and good binding, but no dust jacket and ex-library with normal stickers and stamps. See pictures

Rare/Collectible. Beautiful first edition, red leather-bound hardcover book, the spine has a small scratch otherwise nearly flawless binding, with completely clean and unmarked text inside. The dust jacket has little folds/lines (see pictures) otherwise good.

The book shows a bit of age and fading on the cover (see picture), but is otherwise in very good condition. Clean text. Softcover

Prior owner name on cover page has been blacked out, otherwise both the book and the dust cover are in excellent condition. See photos.

Analytical Psychology Club of NY, 1953. Paperback. Used - Very Good condition. Book is clean and tight with shelf wear. Front and back covers are mildly scuffed. Edge wear along the spine. Front cover is slightly creased near spine. Page edges are tanned. Erased pencil markings are faintly visible in top corner of front end-paper. Chip inside front cover at spine, near the top edge. No other markings or blemishes inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Rare/collectible. Ex-library, with some wear, markings and pen circles on table of contents (see pictures), but otherwise good. No dust jacket.

Norris, Frank: The Pit, Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc. Stated First Printing Thus. Published February,1903. Used. Very Good-/ No Dust Jacket included. 421 pages. Red boards with gilt titling and wheat motif ornamentation. All gilting is still in nice shape. pages. HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT. STOCK MARKET. An attractive used copy.

Rare collectible.
The book is in excellent condition for its age. It has the prior owners name written inside otherwise the text is clean. Burgundy colored cloth cover in very good condition as well. 1936 first edition, sixth impression, of the McGraw-Hill translation of this classical work by the gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin. Translated by Fritz and Grace M. Heider.

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which character-izes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat". YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Cheaper Edition. Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

Plath,Sylvia.1971 First American Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States ISBN 06-013356-2 on the back dj panel. Summary: "The Bell Jar details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet. She is selected for a month-long summer internship as a guest editor of Ladies' Day magazine, but her time in New York City is unfulfilling as she struggles with issues of identity and societal norms."