Psychology from Berthoff Books

Vintage Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 223 pages. Translated from Russian by Ellen de Kadt. First Vintage paperback edition of book published the year before. The account by brothers Zhores Medvedev, a biochemist, and historian Roy Medvedev of Zhores's involuntary hospitalization for his political activity, and Roy's efforts to obtain his release. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, edges and page… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pantheon Books, 1961. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 463 pages, plus 31 Roman-numeraled pages of front matter including preface and a list of the 309 illustrations (chiefly b&w art reproductions, a few in color), with index. Second, revised edition; first was in 1960; the content comes from the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford University Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 187 pages, with index, bibliography. The book discusses the social basis of cognition. 8vo, black paper over boards with beige quarter, copper gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on… Saber más sobre este artículo

University of California Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 508 pages, plus 10 front-matter pages. Expanded and revised edition of book originally published 1954. With Preface to the New Version, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Chapters on balance, shape, form, space, light, color, dynamics, etc. Illustrated with color and b&w plates, and cuts - art reproductions and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1969. Soft cover. Good. 127 pages, with bibliography divided in two parts: Freud's works, and other authors. Towards a "humanistic reinterpretation" of Freud, writes Silvan Tomkins in a Foreword. Trade paperback, matte wraps browned along spine and with a few spots, little shelf wear, a few pages accidentally dog-eared. Inscribed by the author on… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Viking Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 556 pages, with index, preface, chronology of the life of William James, illustrated with b&w James family photos on four double-sided plates, facsimiles of two letters. Viking Compass edition of book first published 1967. Trade paperback, crease to front cover, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page 365-6… Saber más sobre este artículo

Yale University Press, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 106 pages, with index. Fifteenth printing of edition first issued 1955. The book originated with the Terry Lectures, given by the author at Yale University. Trade paperback, wraps soiled/rubbed/lightly worn, more heavily worn on spine which is creased and split (but not separated), foxing to edges. Former owner's name written on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1995. Soft cover. Good. 286 pages, with index and bibliography. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, corner-creases to wraps, end papers browned, edges and page margins age-toned, pages unmarked.

George Braziller, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. 284 pages. Ruminations on "the place of imaginative literature in the world," the author says, interlaced with much introspection. 8vo, navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, edges of boards sunned, loose at rear hinge, spot of erosion in front pastedown at top, in unclipped DJ with edge wear, vertical crease the length… Saber más sobre este artículo

SUNY Press, 2001. Soft cover. Good. 107 pages, with index and bibliography. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) throughout.

International Universities Press, 1950. Soft cover. Good. 252 pages. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light shelf wear, rust-colored water-staining to back upper outer corner, extending on the edges (but not pages) about 30 p. deep from the back, light splotches of same staining on back wrap, binding solid and flexible. Pages unmarked and fairly bright.

Penguin Books, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 329 pages, with index and recommended reading. Reprint of book originally published 1957. A Pelican Original. Mass-market paperback, price sticker on front at top, reading creases and minor back cover bottom corner crease, spine rubbed, little other shelf wear, foxing to edges; edges, end papers and page margins age-toned; binding tight.… Saber más sobre este artículo

W. W. Norton & Company, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 141 pages. Authorized translation by James Strachey. Norton Library edition of this collection first published 1963. ISBN lookup says 1989 for this printing, but it is really from 1970s. Trade paperback (5-1/8" x 7-3/4"), wraps soiled, foxing to edges and wraps. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked.… Saber más sobre este artículo