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New York: The Century Co, 1914. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Original maroon cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine and front cover is bright and shiny. No owner's name or bookplate. The author, Edward Alsworth Ross (Ph.D, LL.D.), was Professor of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin. Among the chapters are: The Outlook for Plain Folk; The World-wide Advance of Democracy; The Falling Birth-Rate; The Significance of Increasing Divorce; Women in Industry; Commercialism Rampant; The Suppression of Important News; The Middle West - The Fiber of the People; The Middle West - The Reassertion of Democracy; The Middle West - State Universities and Their Influence; The Middle West - Society and Culture. 1914 printing of the 1912 original. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. (xii), 236pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. This is the second printing (January 1913) of the September 1912 first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Very Good condition. The background color of the spine has uniformly sun-mellowed, but all lettering remains sharp and distinct. NOT a library discard. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Pages are creamy white and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Two illustrations (newsboy badges). Tables. Footnotes. Bibliography. Three appendices. Index. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in black on the spine and front cover. The author was the Secretary of National Child Labor Committee for Mississippi Valley. From the preface: "This volume is devoted to the discussion of a neglected form of child labor. Just why the newsboy, bootblack and peddler should have been ignored in the general movement for child welfare is hard to understand... Street workers have… Leer más

Aylmer, Ontario: Pathway Publishing Corporation, 1992. Fine condition. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original dark green cloth. From the author's introduction: "This book is really three books... I had occasion to make a study of Anabaptist source materials for references to children and child-training. From this study was born Part Two of this book -- what our Anabaptist forefathers believed about the nature of the child, and how a child should be trained. Meanwhile, our own family of children was coming on the scene... I decided to present a series of problems on child training to readers of FAMILY LIFE magazine... This series of child training problems appeared... from November, 1972 to September, 1973, and proved to be of great interest. Hundreds of letters came in from parents who have had, or are having,… Leer más

New York:: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Free front endpaper neatly excised. Spine lettering faded, but still easily legible. Otherwise in Very Good condition. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are fresh and crisp, with little or no signs of use. With 40 illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed: "To Mrs. Rita Berman, with the cordial regards of the author, [signed] George Henry Payne.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xix, 404pp.

Ithaca and London:: Cornell University Press, 1994. 6" wide by 9" tall. A bright, shiny copy. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat. No creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp - apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with a portrait of Dr. Leeds and a few of his professionally exhibited photographs. Includes the first publication in English of an important essay by Leeds on Karl Marx. A volume from THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES series. Bibliographical references. Index. From the rear cover: "CITIES, CLASSES, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by a leading anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925-1989). Leed's pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal...… Leer más

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1973. Appears seldom if ever read. Near Fine EX-LIBRARY with minimal markings (only ltwo ink stamps, and a bit of glue residue from a spine label that has been neatly removed). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and reasonably tight. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. All text is fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. This is a high quality facsimile reprint of the 1904 first edition, with the addition of a new 28 page historical/biographical Introduction by Peter Green. First Printing Thus. Oversize Hardcover. 8.25" wide by 11.5" tall. "With Plan, Perspective, and 136 Illustrations." Includes two large folding plates: Bird's Eye Perspective of the whole building scheme; and plan of a park. Facsimile reprint of Patrick Geddes's CITY DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF PARKS, GARDENS, AND CULTURE-INSTITUTES, A REPORT TO THE CARNEGIE DUNFERMLINE TRUST. Bound in the original blue cloth,… Leer más

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Volume 10 in the Doubleday Short Studies in Sociology series. Date on title page is 1955. Copyright 1955. No printing or edition statement. The design/lettering on the front cover is sometimes attributed to Edward Gorey, but Toledano says that is "doubtful." (GOREYOGRAPHY, p 109). Footnotes. Has a bibliography. Original dark red pictorial wraps. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by Gorey, Edward (cover design? lettering?). viii, 88pp.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. 7.5" wide by 9.75" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. A study of "bad taste" in urban life, particularly in the North of England during the first half of the 20th century. Looks at some of the ways suburban dwellers can assert their "identity against encroaching respectability." From the Dust Jacket: "The main theme of their book is the extraordinary quality to be found in the leisure culture of the major cities: a popular aesthetic, made up of scraps and pieces of dead styles, clichéd ornaments and plundered pastiche, revamped and revitalized with startling vulgar vitality. The authors believe that this language of the commonplace, often called 'bad taste,' may reveal far more about the true nature of modern society..." . First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize… Leer más

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc , 1996. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. A study and comparison of juvenile delinquency in India and in the United States. New price was 65.00 dollars. Based on official statistics, original research, published reports of research by various criminologists, and two delinquency surveys conducted in India. Looks at delinquency laws in India, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand; rates of delinquent behavior; differing economic, social, and cultural factors; etc. Four appendices. References. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xi, 228pp .

Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1998. Appears unread. Very Near Fine condition (only the cover is very lightly rubbed). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages appears unread. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. NOT a remainder. 1998. First Edition. List of references/bibliographical notes after each chapter. Index. Bound in the original pictorial boards, stamped in red and white. From the rear cover: "Labeled as the most intriguing crime of the 1990's, serial murder will surely remain a primary source of fascination well into the new millennium… CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON SERIAL MURDER is the first [book] to consolidate the authoritative perspectives of acknowledged experts on serial murder along with the fresh approaches of emerging authorities in the field… Contributors address… Etiology of Serial murder, Victim selectivity, Female serial killers, Psychological profiling, Types and methods of stalking, Future… Leer más

Washington D.C.: Brassey's, 1994. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (25.00). "A brilliantly argued expose traces America's crime problems to a failed paradigm that puts individual rights over those of the community, a misinterpretation by both the extreme right and left of the ideas of the great philosophers." - Ingram Editorial Reviews. Original blue-cloth spine and red boards cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/NF DJ (lightly rubbed). 8vo. 365 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. With 16 pages of photos. Chapter notes. Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. THE CRIMSON LETTER follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside. Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were the two dominant archetypes for gay students of the later nineteenth century...… Leer más

New York:: Basic Books, 2003. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (45.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. Small remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A study of scientific ideas about race in Australia from the early 1800s through WWII. Illustrated with many maps and photos. List of sources. Comprehensive bibliography of works cited (that fills 51 pages). Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "THE CULTIVATION OF WHITENESS examines the notions of 'whiteness' and racism, and introduces a whole new framework for discussion of the history of medicine and science. Anderson provides the first full account of the experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts -- experiments whose revelation compelled a major Australian university to publicly… Leer más

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1965. Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Fresh and crisp, probably unread. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Originally issued in softcover, this copy has been professionally rebound in full cloth. The title and author's name are imprinted in type on the spine. The binder has preserved the book's original front wrapper by mounting it on the cloth cover. This is a desirable copy, especially for those who prefer a hardcover binding. This is NOT the 1972 Peter Smith reprint.. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Binder's cloth/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xii, 349pp.

Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999. INSCRIBED to Stephen Rowland [Professor of Geology, UNLV, specializing in the fossil record and paleontology of Southern Nevada] and SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($26.00). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Square and tight. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Bound in the original gray boards with a black spine, stamped in bright silver. From the publisher: "In THE DARK SIDE OF MAN, Michael Ghiglieri, a biologist and protégé of Jane Goodall, takes on one of the most highly charged debates in modern science: the biological roots of bad behavior. Beginning with rape, and moving on to murder, war, and genocide, Ghiglieri offers the most up-to-date, comprehensive look at the male proclivity for violence. In a strong narrative voice, he draws on the latest research and his own personal experiences both as a… Leer más

Hamburg: Volkswacht-Verlag, 1919. Good condition. Old waterstain at the outside edge -- mostly in the margin. Ink name stamp on front cover (i.e. Heinrich Müller). "5. bis 17. Tausend." Softcover. 14.5 cm wide by 21 cm tall. Degeneration and inheritance and the battle for existence. Scarce German language pamphlet. Bound in the original tan wrappers.. 5. bis 17. Tausend. Softcover (stapled wraps). Good condition. 30pp.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1984. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Four appendices. Bibliography. Index. Keywords: Juvenile delinquency. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. xiv, 252pp.

New York: The Free Press, 1977. A beautiful copy. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. Laid-in is a presentation "compliments" slip from Abraham L. Gitlow, Dean of New York University's College of Business and Public Administration. First printing, with complete number row (123456789 10) on the copyright page. Bound in the original dark brown boards, lettered in shiny gold. Keywords: Population. Human Fertility. Aging. . First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition/No Jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. 118pp..

München: Hoheneichen - Verlag, 1930. First printing of the official exposition of the NAZI world view. From the library of Radio Munich, with their small ink stamps. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. A square, reasonably tight copy. Tiny brown speckles (light foxing) to a few pages at the beginning and end. Slight waviness to the upper margin of some pages. No stain. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First Edition (1. Auflage). First printing of the standard work by the Nazis' chief ideologist. The year of publication, 1930, is imprinted on the title page. Bound in the original gilt decorated black cloth. Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was editor of the Nazi party organ, VÖLKISCHER BEOBACHTER. It was his anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and neo-pagan book, DER MYTHUS DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS [The Myth of the Twentieth Century], that supplied Adolf Hitler and the Nazis with a philosophical and pseudo-scientific basis for their racist doctrine. In 1933, Rosenberg was… Leer más

Munchen: Oskar Beck, 1920. 2 vols: 1920 and 1922. Shipping at cost for these 2 heavy volumes. Clean, square, tight, unmarked set. Bookplate in each volume. "Erster Band... 15. - 22., Unveranderte Auflage." xv, 616pp + 8 pages of ads. Illustrated with 3 folding charts. Volume II: "Zweiter Band... Sechzehnte bis Dreissigste Auflage." vii, 635pp + 12 pages of ads. Early printings [Volume I, 1920; & Volume II, 1922] of volumes first published in 1918 and 1922, respectively. Complete 2 volume set of a work that Carter/Muir identify as one of the 424 most influential books of all time. See Printing and the Mind of Man, The Impact of Print on Five Centuries of Western Civilization #410: "[Spengler] contended that all civilizations, like every other living organism, pass through a predetermined 'life cycle' of prime, maturity and decay... Spengler distinguished eight civilizations which, independent of one another, have run this course: Egyptian, Babylonian,… Leer más