James salter foreword (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. B & W Photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; [signed] 2005 Potomac Books. HC/DJ. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kasler on the half-title page. Snugly bound and very neat in sharp edged and bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $27.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket edges; feels to have been carefully read a single time. Illustrated with a section of b&w photos. VG++/VG++ ; Signed by Biographee.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 3/4". x, 264pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Toning and gentle bumps to corners and edges of red cloth over boards. Spots of toning to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The present book is about normal human personality, and its aim is to explore the effects of social environment and upbringing as much as to elucidate the nature of genetical factors. Its functions are thus complementary to those of the average textbook of genetics. It deals with a topic of obvious interest and importance, but one where many geneticists fear to tread and where some would say they had no business. This book shows that there is indeed a genetical background to the varying manifestations of personality.(Publisher). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. 1st ed. Red cloth cover. x+264, 4 photoplates, ex-Trent College Library with their sm.stamps bottom fr.free endpaper, bottom t.p. and occ. elsewhere in lower margin as well as to top & bottom textblock edges, label fragment and vertical sellotape adhesion mark fr. pastedown, latter also to rear pastedown and offest to facing endpaper (due to sellotaping of jacket edges), scrap of paper fr.free endpaper, sm. ink no. verso t.p., internally clean, tight & unmarked otherwise; unclipped jacket clean and undamaged aside from a v. faint trace of label removal bottom sp. externally very good, but wraparound edges internally affected by sellotape removal. Although intelligence is discussed Cyril Burt is completely ignored bar an early passing reference.…

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.