Mind Making by James Harvey Robinson, First Edition (5 results)

First edition. 8vo. 235 pp. Hardcover binding, no jacket, else very good condition. (100417).

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-63 in this important series, a study of how the mind has evolved, subtitled "The relation of intelligence to social reform," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the scarce and important D-Day Armed Services Editions issues. Top edge nick, else solid very good.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st ed. vii+235; faint browning to outer sides of endpapers, 1925-dated sig. of G.T.Wells, Cambridge Massachusetts, top front endpaper, prev.dealer has pencilled in 'HG's bro' beside this, slight crease to top t.p. & half-title on inner side, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, top edge a tad dust marked, covers generally clean but back has some whitish spots and darkening to edges, spine a little sun-faded with shallow vertical ridge and hint of end-rubbing. Uncommon in UK. An ambitious work attempting a kind of psychological social history of the rise of civilization and the natuyre of creative thought. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 14.5 Cm x 21 Cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1921. First edition. A fine book in a vg- clipped jacket. Edge wear and edge tear, small chips to jacket. Owner's name and one tiny book store ink stamp to front end paper. Untrimmed fore edges and bottom edges. Little pencil highlighting. Else, tight spine, strong hinge, no foxing, no darkening. A outstanding book in the field of physiology and psychiatry. 235 pp.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing with print code 'M-V' indicating December 1921. In first state pale blue DJ with Navy printed lettering. [13], 4-235pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth with gilt stamped lettering, top edge trimmed with deckled fore and tail. Top edge a bit dusted with a handful of spot stains, front fore tail edge just nudged, otherwise exceedingly clean and fresh with tight binding, as close to fine a copy as we are likely to see; with the scarce dust jacket withch shows some rubbing and toning anround the extremities and with just a bit of loss to spine ends, clean and whole otherwise with price of $2.50 intact. Credited by Franklin Le Van Baumer as the seminal study in the nascent field of 'Intellectual History.' James Harvey Robinson was a founding fellow of the New School for Social Research along with his fellow Columbia professors Charles Beard, John Dewey, and Thorstein Veblen, who had all been censured by the university for their stand agains U.S. involvement in WWI. Together, they founded the New School as a progressive institution seeking to improve society and human welfare through education and free inquiry. *The Mind in the Making* was a manifesto for the New School, wherein 'His chief attention has been devoted not to kings and popes, wars and boundary lines, but to the rise and fall of ideas, the comings and goings of beliefs and opinions. It is the past of the human mind that he treats in this book, with a view to promoting its freedom and further expansion. He makes plain the historical reasons for our intellectual bondage, and points the way of escape and the consequent lightening of the worlds burden of stupidity, blindness, and threatening disaster. The mind of man is evidently still in the making, and, historically viewed, has as yet realized but few of the infinite possibilities before it.' (From the DJ).