Character And Temperament by Joseph Jastrow - 2007-03-15

New York: D. Appleton, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1915. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in green cloth. 596pp. Very good. Wear to spine ends and corners, faint mottling to boards. edges toned, tape on pastedowns. Contents unmarked in a sound binding.

New York and London: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Underlining and notes to two pages.. 1915. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Jastrow was a Polish-born professor of the young science of psychology at the University of Wisconsin for nearly forty years. He worked to promote and popularize psychological theories and experiments among the general public and was particularly interested in research on optical and psychological illusions and debunking parapsychology. In this volume, published after his first nervous breakdown, he details his theories about perceived sexual and racial differences in human behavior filtered through the lens of his own biases and prejudices; to whit, his explanations of female hysteria, "the yellow peril", and this gem: "Speaking broadly, the negro mind has been adequate to follow and adopt the patterns of activity evolved by a culture rated as vastly superior, infinitely more… Read More

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Presumed first edition, 1915, hardcover with green cloth boards, octavo, 596pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. 596pp. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly, spine and edges lightly sunned, a couple of tiny tears at the spine ends, very good. Briefly Inscribed by Jastrow on the front fly.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.