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Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. xiii, 430 pages. Publisher's black cloth. Lacks the dust jacket. This copy SIGNED by Struik to Professor [H.B.] Phillips August 1948. Cloth. Phillips was an MIT Professior and fellow mathematician. Rare signed. Dirk Jan Struik (September 30, 1894 - October 21, 2000) was a Dutch born American (since 1934) mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the U.S (wikipedia).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First American Edition. xv, [1], 619, [2] pages. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Missing the rare dust jacket. Bookstore ticket on front flyleaf (Old Corner Book Store, Boston MA). A sound clean copy with perhaps a touch of fading to the spine panel. Old pencil notation regarding a later edition on rear endpapers. A few edge tears not affecting text. Cloth. Based on lectures the author gave to various audiences, "the purpose of the book is primarily a practical one: to enable the busy reader - whether teacher or probation officer of whatever the motive for his interest may be - to gain some notion how the criminal in the making may best be studied and handled." (from the preface). There are many charts, diagrams and statistics. Also some photomechanically reproduced images of case studies (juveniles both young men and women), similarly of handwriting. The author is Professor of Education in the University of London,… Read More

London: Vinton & Co, Ltd, 1898. First Printing. Cloth. Fine. First Printing. vi (including frontis), [2 - contents ], [7]-33 pages. Tan cloth, with gilt decoration on front board and spine titling. All edges gilt. Publisher's ticket (4 3/4 inches by 7 inches) affixed to rear pastedown listing Gilbey titles offered by Vinton. A bright, crisp example. Cloth.