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NEW YORK: THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, WORN PRINT ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT INDICATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION. 16 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL INTRO, DEVELOPEMENT, INTEGRATION, FANTASY DREAMS HYPNOTIC, ANXIETY AND DEFENSE, NEUROTIC CONFLICT, NEUROSIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, DILENQUENT BEHAVIOR, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS, INJURIES AND BRAIN, PSYCHOSES AND PROBLEM OF SOCIETY. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Robert W. White (19042001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal. His book The Abnormal Personality, published in 1948, became the standard textbook on Abnormal Psychology. A historian in perspective, White did not focus entirely on abnormal psychology, but investigated the coping… Read More

BOSTON: DANA ESTES AND COMPANY, 1890 GRAY COVER, BLACK PRINT SPINE, INSIDE IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS. VOLUME NUMBER III OF THREE, LIBRARY RAISED STAMP TITLE PAGE. BURTON WAS A SCHOLAR AT OXFORD AND WROTE THIS QUITE DETAILED WORK IN AN EFFORT TO HELP HIMSELF AND OTHERS. HIS PASSION FOR PSYCHOLOGY HELPED GUIDE HIM. NO DATE, CIRCA 1890. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire. Burton's Melancholy focuses sharply on the self; unlike Bacon, Burton assumes that knowledge of psychology, not natural science, is humankind's greatest need. His enormous treatise is considered "delightful" by critics; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of "black bile", according to the humour theory fashionable at the… Read More

MUNCHEN, GERMANY: R. PIPER & CO., 1913 VERY NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT WITH GREEN ON SPINE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY NICE CONDITION. NICE GREEN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. EDITED BY PAUL DEUSSEN, PROFESSOR PHILOSOPHY. WITH HELP FROM FRANZ MACKRAUER. VOLUME 10. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end. Schopenhauer, Arthur (Danzig, 1788-1860, Frankfurt/Main), the radical philosopher of pessimism, who described himself as the only worthy successor to Kant, assimilated all the negative trends of a disillusioned age. Like Voltaire, he mocked at the optimism of Leibniz, writing in a highly readable style, which enabled him to draw a Dantesque vision of suffering, demonstrating ¿welcher Art dieser meilleur des mondes possibles… Read More

USA: D. H. MCBRIDE & CO., 1899 SISTER MARY ALPHONSA CORRY (1842-1916 ). VERY NICE FIRST EDITION. GRAY COVER WITH BLACK OUTLINE AND TITLE ON FRONT. SOME FADING ON COVER FROM AGE. ON PAGES 7-11 THERE ARE CORRESPONDING SMALL DROPS-4 ON EACH PAGE (THEY DO NOT EFFECT PRINT). VERY TIGHT AND CLEAN. NO MARKINGS. ABOUT SUMMER SCHOOL ONE YEAR AT LAKE WONONA, WISCONSIN. BEAUTIFUL BOOK. TERRIFIC PIECE OF CATHOLIC LIFE AND HISTORY ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

CHICAGO: THOMPSON & THOMAS, 1891 Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, 1850 ¿ February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang. Some of his works include Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States, Baled Hay, Remarks, Bill Nye and Boomerang, Bill Nye's History of England, and Bill Nye's Red Book. Late in his career, he was briefly associated with James Whitcomb Riley with whom he wrote two books. NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN BOOK, GOLD DESIGN ON FRONT, IMPRINTED LETTERS ON SPINE. SOME WEAR WITH AGE- BUT GOOD CONDITION, ONLY MARK IS A SMALL RED CIRCLE INSIDE FRONT IN CORNER. TIGHT, CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. OVER 150 ILLUSTRATIONS, ABOUT NYES LIFE, FATHER AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING, QUITE HUMOROUS. LOVELY BOOK AND COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS; THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, 1905 GREEN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. LIGHTLY WORN OUTSIDE . INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE.REVISED EDITION. RARE. 18 SECTIONS INCLUDING MOTIVE OF READING, READING HABIT, WHAT BOOKS TO READ, BEST TIME TO READ, NOTE BOOKS, CULTIVATION TASTE, POETRY, ART SKIPPING, USE TRANSLATIONS, PERIODICALS, BOOKS TO OWN, LIBRARIES, INDEX AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME LIBRARIES. RICHARDSON WAS A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881 SYMBOLS OF FAITH THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN RELIGION. NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES OF SPINE WORN, SMALL OWNER LABEL INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, Originally published 1877. THREE VOLUMES WITH THIS BEING VOLUME ONE. EIGHT CHAPTERS OF VERY DETAILED INFORMATION. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY. A creed (also confession, symbol, or statement of faith) is a statement of the shared religions of a religious community in the form of a fixed formula summarizing core tenets. Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 ¿ October 20, 1893), was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a Church historian who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States. PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: DANA ESTES & COMPANY, 1900 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. ILLUSTRATIONS AND ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. CIRCA 1900, NO PUBLISH DATE LISTED. WONDEFUL INFORMING LECTURES BY A FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITER. CROWN OF OLIVE HAS 3 LECTURES ON WORK, TRAFFIC AND WAR. MUNERA PULVERUS HAS DEFINITIONS, STORE COIN KEEPING, COMMERCE, GOVERNMENT AAND MATERSHIP. RAPHAELITISM. ARATRA PENTELICI- ARTS, IDOLATRY, IMAGINATION, LIKENESS, STRUCTURE, SCHOOL OF ATHENS, FUTURE ENGLAND, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRUSSIA. ELEMENTS OF DRAWING. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher and art critic of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, 1969 VERY GOOD LOOKING BLACK COVER WITH WHITE PRINT ON THE SPINE, EXCELLENT CONDITION, TIGHT AND CLEAN, FORMER OWNER HAS A IMPRESSION STAMP ON THE TITLE PAGE INDICATING OWNERSHIP, BOOK LOOKS NEW. LITTELL HAS A 6 PAGE INTRODUCTION INDICATING THAT HE HAD TO EDIT ALL DOCUMENTS REVIEWED DOWN TO THIS BOOK AND THAT THIS WAS THE HEART OF THE MATTER OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE WARSAW PACT INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935) is an American novelist and former journalist who resides in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union. Littell was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, of Russian Jewish origin. He is a 1956 graduate of Alfred University in western New York. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and served at times as his ship's navigator, antisubmarine warfare officer, communications officer, and deck watch officer. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Boston: JAMES H. EARLE, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK LINES, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHTLY WORN. GOOD PICTURE OF JEWETT AS FRONTISPIECE. GREAT INTRODUCTION BY THAYER. BOOK TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS. DR. JEWETT AND TEMPERANCE REFORM. PHYSICIAN, ARTIST, CHEMIST, INVENTOR, TEACHER. INVOLVED AGAINST SLAVERY. PROHIBITION. GREAT BOOK. FROM BOYHOOD, PHYSICIAN, PIONEER, REBELLION, GUERRILLA WARFARE, CHILDREN, LECTURING, FAMILY, CHURCH, DEATH. A WONDERFUL LIFE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

STUTTGART, GERMANY: ARTHUR SCHOTT, 1890 UNIQUE, RARE. TWO PAGES ATTACHED NEATLY IN THE FRONT. ONE IN RED INK SIGNED 1886 LOOKS LIKE BY CARL JOSEPH. OTHER PAGE WRITTEN BY IGNATIUS FREDERICK, BISHOP OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.--NOV. 8, 1892 WHERE HE IS ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE BEAUTIFUL WORK AND RECOMMENDING IT TO CATHOLICS OF THE DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. SHOULD BE WELCOME IN EVERY CATHOLIC FAMILY. CIRCA 1890. TWO SECTIONS, 467 PAGES AND 367 PAGES. VERY NICE LOOKING RED COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, WEAR SHOWS ON UPPER AND LOWER SPINE, INSIDE FRONT COVER AND BACK SHOWS AGE, SMALL STICKER STATING M. BARTH & CO. IN FRONT, TIGHT INSIDE, CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS INSIDE. BEAUTIFUL COLOR FRONTISPIECE AND BEAUTIFUL BOOK. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FOLDOUT PICTURE OF LOURDES IN COLOR. LOURDES IS A French watering resort famous for miracle cures. In 1858 the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared in a grotto to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879), later canonized as St. Bernadette in 1933. A marble… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: THE GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1931 LIGHT BROWN COVER WITH THE LOGO ON THE FRONT IN GOLD OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. LIGHT WEAR ALONG EDGES AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE WITH NO MARKINGS. 103 PAGES WITH A LARGE APPENDIX IN THE BACK, THO: CARMICK MANUSCRIPT, 1727 (FACSIMILE, TRANSCRIPTION), FACSIMILES OF MINUTES OF WESTERN NEW JERSEY, FACSIMILE OF AN INDENTURE APPRENTICESHIP. NICE HISTORY AND INFORMATION. Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, 1883 BROWN COVER WORN ON EDGES AND FADED SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. VERY INTERESTING BOOK THAT DESCRIBES AND DISCUSSES THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH GOD'S HAND IS EVIDENT ON EARTH. UPON READING THE PREFACE I WAS INTRIGUED BY BURR'S UNDERTAKING AND READ THE BOOK. HE USES HISTORY, FACTS, EXAMPLES AND HIS OWN BELIEF AND UNDERSTANDING TO PRESENT A VERY INTERESTING BOOK. FOR ONE THAT LOVES RELIGION, QUESTIONING OR JUST WANTS TO HEAR SOMEONES IDEAS FROM OVER 140 YEARS AGO WILL ENJOY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS INC., 1944 LIGHT TAN COVER, RED AND GOLD DESIGN SPINE. FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BY ALLAN ROSS MACDOUGALL, INTRODUCTION BY DENIS DE ROUGEMONT. Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont, was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. The End of All Men describes the imminent end of the earth as it plunges toward the sun through an accident to the law of gravity. Nature is the main character, with mostly anonymous humans acting in bit parts and scarcely more important than ants on an anthill. As the apocalypse approaches, our civilization is put into perspective and is mostly found wanting. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 23 May 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer. He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated… Read More

NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1910 ESSAYS BY THE GREATEST ESSAYISTS OF ALL TIME. SIDNEY, JOHNSON, COWLEY, ADDISON, STEELE, SWIFT, DEFOE, HUME, SMITH, COLERIDGE, HAZLITT, HUNT, LAMB, QUINCY, SHELLEY, MACAULAY VERY NICE DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PHILADELPHIA: THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1901 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, SLIGHT WEAR EDGES, SILVER DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME PLATE INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL REGARDING ETIQUETTE. ETHICS, CARDS INVITATIONS, CONDUCT, ENTERTAINING, RECEPTIONS, DINNERS, LUNCH, SUPPERS, BREAKFAST, PARTIES, STRANGER, YOUNG AMERICA, GREETINGS, INTRODUCTIONS, BEHAVIOR, PUBLIC, SPEECH, SELF, DRESS, HABITS, WORDS, SOCIAL, GIFTS, GALLANTRY AND COQUETRY, CONCUSION. Etiquette is the set of conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society, usually in the form of an ethical code that delineates the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed by a society, a social class, or a social group. In modern English usage, the French word étiquette (ticket) dates from the year 1750. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK : NEWSOM & COMPANY, 1910 RARE BOOK, GREEN COVER WITH BLACK PRINT, ELEPHANT AND MONKEY ON THE FRONT. WORN, PIECE OF MASKING TAPE ALONG SPINE, INSIDE FRONT COVER INDICATES WAS LIBRARY BOOK MONONGAHELA CITY SCHOOL, FIRST BLANK PAGE MISSING, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, ARTWORK VERY NICE. 6 PAGES WITH SMALL PIECES SCOTCH TAPE.
FABLES FROM INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE ISLES OF THE SEA. OLD, OLD STORIES.
TALES FROM FAR EAST, WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH. ABOUT 58 STORIES. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE. STIRS THE IMAGINATION AND STIMULATES THOUGHT. THE ELEPHANT AND THE APE, THE RICH MAN'S GUEST, THE RAVEN, MONKEYS AND THE MOON, THE LION AND THE GNAT, THE LITTLE MOUSE'S MISTAKE, THE EAGLE AND THE CROW AND MANY OTHER STORIES.
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a… Read More

NEW YORK: THE LITERARY GUILD, 1936 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. PROTECTIVE COVER SHOWS WEAR. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. Donald Culross Peattie (June 21, 1898 ¿ November 16, 1964) was an American botanist, naturalist and author. He was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers" during his heyday. His brother, Roderick Peattie (1891-1955), was a geographer and a noted author in his own right. PEATTIE WRITES A WONDERFUL TRIBUTE FOR ALL WHO LOVE NATURE- THE FIRST SENTENCE IN HIS FORWARD READS- "OF ALL THINGS UNDER THE SUN THAT A MAN MAY LOVE, THE LIVING WORLD HE LOVES MOST PURELY." CHARLES DARWIN'S PICTURE IS THE FRONTISPIECE, THERE ARE PICTURES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK. A WONDERFUL READ FOR THE NATURE LOVER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

New York: The Heritage Reprints, 1944 Very nice book with beautiful artwork. Green cover with gold design front and spine. Forest design inside front and back. Artwork in color throughout with a few black and white. No internal markings, tight construction. Hudson, William Henry, 1841-1922, English author and naturalist, b. Buenos Aires of American parents. He spent his childhood on the pampas but developed a heart condition and finally emigrated to England in 1870. Hudson was a sensitive observer of nature, particularly of birds. In his books he describes plants and animals in a highly personal manner with great force and beauty. His best-known work, Green Mansions (1904), is a romance set in a South American jungle. 1776 Bookstore, where history lives.

NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 1881 DARK BROWN COVER WITH FADING ON SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. 32 SERMONS DATING FROM 1846 TO 1852. VARIOUS TOPICS. HUMAN RACE, CHARACTER, GLORY, HEAVEN, SCHOOL, CHRIST, WORSHIP, MINISTRY, WISDOM, REVELATION AND MANY OTHER TOPICS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.