The Principles of Psychology / American Science Series -- Advanced Course / In Two Volumes / Vol. I and Vol. II

James, William / Professor of Psychology in Harvard University

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1890

About this Item

Both volumes dated 1890 to copyright pages, but UN-DATED to title pages. Both volumes are "very-good-minus" in original dark olive green cloth-covered boards with gilt spine titles and original powder blue endpapers -- a pristine set with no internal markings other than some light pencil underlining to a few pages in the chapter on "Habit" in Volume One, albeit with rubbed board corners. In the list of the American Science Series titles opposite the title page of Vol. I the word "Psychology" is NOT hyphenated, making this the second or third printing. But at Vol. I, pg. 307, line 19 the typo "slink from noticea, nd are unable . . ." , HAS BEEN CORRECTED to " . . . from notice, and . . ." and the misprints at Vol. I, p. 10, lines 9-10 and to Vol. II, p.101, line 20, HAVE ALSO BEEN CORRECTED, here. There are NO publisher's ads following the Index at the rear of Volume II. So, a complete, 1890-dated, and undamaged set, from the first year of publication, of the early classic in the field. This, James' twelve-hundred page masterwork, is a rich blend of different academic and scientific disciplines blended with his own personal reflections, giving us such ideas as "the stream of consciousness" and the baby's impression of the world "as one great blooming, buzzing confusion". These two volumes contain the seeds of both pragmatism and phenomenology, and influenced generations of thinkers in Europe and America, including Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and Ludwig Wittgenstein along with such schools of thought as European phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, humanist psychology and the cognitive sciences. 689 pp., 704 pp., now reduced from $1,200.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Principles of Psychology / American Science Series -- Advanced Course / In Two Volumes / Vol. I and Vol. II
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1890
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science
  • Psychology
  • Health & Medicine