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Bias in Mental Testing
New York: Free Press, 1980. 786 pages. A massive defense of the intelligence test and the lack of bias in them. ISBN: 9780029164303.
Second printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of Stephen Jay Gould, who devotes the epilogue to chapter six of The Mismeasure of Man to a critique of Jensen's book, which appeared just as Gould was finishing his manuscript. Gould writes, "I never expected to find a modern defense of IQ ... History often recycles its errors." I suspect Gould relied on a pre-publication copy for his analysis, as he gives the date of publication as 1979, when Bias in Mental Testing appeared in 1980. In any case, contrary to Gould's normal practice, this book is not annotated, so while it is not likely to be the copy he used to write Mismeasure of Man, it was the copy in his library, with a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 222722More details Price: $50.00 -
The Evolution Hypothesis: A Criticism of the New Cosmic Philosophy
First Edition
Edinburgh: James Gemmell, George IV. Bridge, 1887. 301 pages followed by 16 pages of publisher ads. ISBN: B003OMO6VU.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy, no dust jacket. Cloth a bit worn at the edges and corners with a small chip at the spine foot. Former seller's sticker on front pastedown.
Book ID: 214262More details Price: $50.00 -
Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. xviii, 362 pages. A major book justifying the use of IQ tests as an objective meaurement of innate intelligence. Terman's work was the foundation of the Stanford-Binet test, which is widely used to measure intelligence in the US. The underpinnings of the test have been assailed for race and gender bias. ISBN: B0000D5IND.
Probably an early printing, but not a first. While this is an ex-library copy with a bookplate, evidence of pocket removal, and markings on the spine it comes from the library of Stephen Jay Gould, who devotes an entire section of one of his most important books, The Mismeasure of Man, to Terman and this book.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 215468More details Price: $50.00 -
The Works of Daniel C. Darrow, M.D. (Two volumes)
First Edition
Kansis City: Sevorg Publishing, 1971. Selected reproductions of articles and publications by the medical investigator spanning 40 years, followed by writings by friends, colleagues, and his children. Each volume 8-1/4 by 10-3/4 inches. ISBN: B071GDQB6G.
First edition (stated "first printing"). A very good complete 2-volume set, with no dust jackets. Some edge wear and spotting to page block. Slight lean to volume 2. A large, heavy set.
Book ID: 179137More details Price: $50.00 -
Memoire Etablissant l'Injustice et l'Illegalite du Maintien de l'Universite-Laval a Montreal
First Edition
Montreal: n.p, 1881. 119 pages. A brief establishing the injustice and illegality of maintaining the Universite-Laval in Montreal. Attributed to the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery. Scarce. ISBN: 281AIB1048182.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback), sewn. Covers are mildly soiled and there is edge and corner wear with small edge chips, covers are partially detached.
Book ID: 263146More details Price: $50.00 -
Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles
New York: Arno Press, 1980. 287 pages. 8-7/8 by 11-1/4 inches. Text in French. Reprint of the 1840-45 edition. Illustrated in black-and-white. A volume in the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. ISBN: 9780405127021.
A fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. No dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 212441More details Price: $50.00 -
The Hierarchical Genome and Differentiation Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics and Evolution (2 volume set)
First Edition
Singapore and London: World Scientific and Imperial College Perss, 1999. Series on Mathematical Biology and Medicine, no. 3. Two volumes. 1836 pages. An alternative biology, combining theoretical physics and embryology. ISBN: 9789810222680.
First edition (first printing). Fine hardcovers in illustrated boards; no dust jacket, as issued. A large, heavy set.
Book ID: 216077More details Price: $50.00 -
Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere (Cambridge Planetary Science series)
First Edition
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 544 pages. Twelve papers. ISBN: 9780521245586.
First edition thus. Previous owner's name stamped on edges and front free endpaper, elese near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76867More details Price: $45.00 -
Talcott Parson's General Action Scheme: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
First Edition
Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Company, (1982). 309 pages. A detailed study of Parson's central concepts of sociology. ISBN: 9780870730979.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Errata sheet laid in.
Book ID: 217832More details Price: $43.75 -
Einführung in die Determinantentheorie: Einschliesslich der unedlichen und der Fredholmschen Determinanten
First Edition
Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp, 1909. 550 pages. A dense study of the Fredholm determinant, a complex function to generalize the determinant of a matrix. The work is perhaps most notable for introducing modern matrix notation (also credited to Cuthbert Cullis in 1913). See Cajoni, History of Mathematical Notations, vol. II, p. 103. ISBN: B0032D16BO.
First edition (first printing). In a contemporary half-leather and pebbled cloth binding with raised bands and gilt title lettering. The binding is signed Arthur S. Colley on the verso of the marbled front endpaper. Minor wear to the corners, but an attractive copy.
Book ID: 191510More details Price: $40.00 -
Biology for Living
First Edition
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. 444 pages. 8-3/4 by 10 inches. A textbook. ISBN: 9780801832215.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Inscribed by author: "To Stephen Jay Gould, Read in small bits as antidote to fox terriers -- and share with appropriate son. Bruce Wallace." The reference is probably a nod to Gould's essay, "The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone," about how writers of biology textbooks copy from one another without checking facts, thereby propagating false science. Obtained from the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book." We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 200668More details Price: $40.00 -
Problema nasledovaniya priobretennykh priznakov istoriya apriornykh i empiricheskikh popytok yeë resheniya [title in Russian]
First Edition
Moscow: Nauka, 1971. 274 pages. Text in Russian. A study of the Lamarck and Darwin's theories of the inheritance of acquired traits. The author was a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. One copy recorded in OCLC, in Paris. ISBN: 281AIB1038411.
First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy (no dust jacket). Inscribed by the author to fellow evolutionist and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould: "To Prof. Dr. Steven (sic) Gould, with compliments from the author. L. Blacher. Moscow, 6.10.1971" This book was inscribed to Gould before he published any of his groundbreaking work. Provenance: From the office library of Dr. Gould.
Book ID: 193117More details Price: $40.00 -
The Darwinian Heritage (Princeton Legacy Library)
First Edition
Princeton University Press, 1985. 1138 pages. Essays by Darwin scholors including Howard Gruber, Silvan S. Schweber, Janet Browne, Gillian Beer, Peter J. Bowler and others. ISBN: 9780691083568.
First edition (first printing). Very good in a dust jacket with a short closed tear to the front flap.
Book ID: 235782More details Price: $40.00 -
Essai de paleontologie philosophique
New York: Arno Press, 1980. 250 pages. Text in French. Reprint of the 1896 edition published with the subtitle Ouvage faisant suite aux enchainements du monde animal dans les temps geologiques. Illustrated in black-and-white. A volume in the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. ISBN: 9780405127120.
A fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. No dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 212410More details Price: $40.00 -
Skelet belemnitid: Morfologiya i biologicheskiy analiz [Belemnite Skeletons: Morphology and biological analysis (title in Russian)]
First Edition
Moscow: Kayka, 1967. 100 pages plus 16 leaves of plates. Belemnites were Jurrasic Era creatures similar to squids but with hard internal skeletons. A scarce monograph, not recorded in in OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1042887.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 216086More details Price: $40.00 -
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
First Edition
Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1989. 268 pages. Buck was the first person to be forcibly sterilized under the Virginia eugenics law, the Compulsory Sterilization Law. ISBN: 9780882820453.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Smith, "Steve, thanks so much for your interest and encouragement. Dave." Steve was Stephen Jay Gould, who had written about the Carrie Buck case on a number of occasions. He is thanked in the acknowledgements for commenting on an early draft.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215852More details Price: $40.00 -
Biology and Social Thought: 1850-1914 : Five Lectures Delivered at the International Summer School in History of Science Uppsala, July 1990
First Edition
Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, 1993. 95 pages. Bowler is a leading historian of evolutionary thought. ISBN: 9780918102195.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author, "Best wishes, Peter Bowler." Uncommon signed.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215770More details Price: $40.00 -
Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions (Evolution and the Genetics of Populations) (Volume 3)
First Edition
University of Chicago Press, 1977. 613 pages. The third volume in Wright's profoundly influential four-volume work on genetics and evolution. ISBN: 9780226910512.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 235167More details Price: $40.00 -
Paleoantropologia argentina [Obras completea y correspondencia cientifica... vol. XVIII]
First Edition
La Plata, Argentina: Taller de Impresiones Oficiales, 1934. 704 pages. 10-1/2 by 7 inches. Many plates, one folding. Text in Spanish. Ameghino, a native Italian, was the most important 19th century fossil expert in Patagonia. ISBN: 281AIB1043984.
First edition (first printing). Rebound in green cloth; fine. The title page is a cancel.
Book ID: 223076More details Price: $40.00 -
Additive Gene Systems: An Explanation for Problems in Evolution and Selection
First Edition
(Hertfordshire, England): Greenfield Publications, 1988. 312 pages. Printed from typescript. ISBN: 9781871508000.
First edition (first printing). Red cloth with gold lettering on spine and both covers. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. With a cancel pasted to the table of contents with ordering information.
Book ID: 223350More details Price: $40.00