Wilson albert md (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st American edition an original 1926 vintage issue. Typical used book appearance.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo; vi, 160, 24 leaves of plates with facing text. Green vertically ribbed cloth, gilt titled on spine and front cover. Black coated endpapers. A very nice copy of the first edition, this copy inscribed to A. Percy Fitt / from Albert Wilson / June 14th, 1899. Chapters on anatomy, functions, alcohol, marriage, religion, insanity, crime. The 24 leaves of plates print thirty-seven illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, sturdy binding and strong hinges, clean unmarked interior. Mild edge wear especially at crown of spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Profusely illustrated. Beware the modern reprints; most are scanned copies with illustrations inferior to this original edition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Inscribed by author to his daughter Alice, signed "from her father, Xmas 1910" upon front free endpaper. [Documentation supporting this provenance will be provided.] xiii, [1], 375 pages. Index of Subjects. List of Authorities. Complete with 82 black and white plates, several of which fold out. Gilt lettering and decoration upon olive cloth. Top edge gilt. "Explains where we fall short, and suggests how the true remedies for individual, anti-social and collective misconduct or communal misunderstandings may be best applied". - Introductory Preface. Chapters include: Humanity, Normal and Abnormal; The Degenerate; The Criminal; How Criminals are Made; Responsibility; Sin and Crime; British Methods and Results; The Relations of Physiology to Justice; Development and Its Dangers; The Physiology of the Brain; Where is Mind?; The Physical Basis of Mind and Personality; Social Hygiene in Holland; The Treatment of Vagabonds and Crime in Belgium; Treatment; The Way Out - General William Booth of the Salvation Army offers a message for England. Wilson was "A genius before his time. The blatant truths of his observations are staggering. Political correctness was in the long distant future so he told it like it was. Open this book at random and you will find yourself drawn into the narrative, without fail." - online review. Light foxing. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A special copy of this landmark study.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology, Human Behaviour, Human Behavior, Criminal Behaviour, Criminology, Heredity, General Booth, Salvation Army, Tramps; Signed by Author(s).…