31. Rieff, Philip.

Two offprints: 1. History, Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences (1953) / 2. The Authority of the Past – Sickness and Society in Freud’s Thought (1954) //

Social Research, 1953 – 1954. 8°. 13, 23 pages. Softcover. Stapled. Only slightly stained. Rare !

32. Riesman, David.

Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics.

First Edition. New Haven, Yale U.P., 1952. 24cm x 16.2cm. xii, 751 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine in near fine dust jacket showing some darkening to spine. From the library of Martin S. Dworkin, with his discrete ownership-embossing to front free end paper. (Studies in national policy series).

33. Sidgwick, Henry.

The Development of European Polity [With Chapters on “Functions of Government and Relation of Law to Government in Greece and Rome” / “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century” and “Political Thought of Hobbes and Locke”]. With a Preface by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick.

Third Edition. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. 14.7 cm x 23 cm. XXVI, 454 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering. Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of german philosopher Manfred Walther, with a bookmark in the chapter “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century”.

34. Simmel, Georg.

Philosophie des Geldes.

Zweite, vermehrte Auflage. Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1907. 18 cm x 24.5 cm. XIV, 585 Seiten. Moderner Halblederband in sehr gutem Zustand mit eingebundener Originalbroschur / Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Professionally rebacked with marbled paper and leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discoloration and slight foxing on the title page. Private Widmung / Inscribed by previous owner on half-title page. Text in German.

35. Simpson, George.

Science as Morality – An essay towards Unity [I. The Scientist: Technician or Moralist ? / II. The Assault on Social Science / III. The Conduct of Sociologists / IV. Science as Morality] Including an original letter by Simpson to Wolff, on his Brooklyn College Stationery and stapled to it a typescript of Kurt Wolff’s letter to Simpson.

Yellow Springs, The American Humanist Association, 1953. 8°. 60 pages. Softcover. From the library of Kurt H. Wolff. With several annotations by Wolff. Includes a typescript of a letter by Wolff to Simpson regarding this essay as well as an original letter with Simpsons answer to Wolff. Wolff criticizes Simpson briefly but has also positive things to say – Simpson answers Wolff that he is “supposed to draw up a code of standards for sociologists”. Very interesting document on american sociology !

36. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

37. Small, Albion W.

General Sociology. An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological Theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.

Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1905. 21.6cm x 15cm. xiii, 739 pages. First Edition bound in Modern Hardcover (green cloth) with black lettering. Former copy of Iowa State University in excellent new binding (withdrawn). The new binding eliminated all external signs of a former library copy. A wonderful edition.

38. Small, Albion W./ Vincent, George E.

An Introduction to The Study of Society. [Includes six coloured charts/maps of: 1.The First Settlement / 2. The Rural Group / 3. The Village / 4. The City / 5. Postal Routes arranged about Indianapolis as a Center / 6. A Chart designed to show the distribution of functions at various stages of social organization /

New York and others, American Book Company, 1894. 19cm x 14cm. 384 (6) pages. First Edition bound in modern Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition of the modern binding. New endpapers. Some very few pencil annotations on the rear endpaper. Very few fine pencil annottaions within the text (erasable). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

39. Stepniak-Kravchinskii, Sergej.

The Russian Peasantry. Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life and Religion.

Third Edition. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1894. 21.6cm x 14.1cm. x, 651 (2) pages. Original hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor traces of foxing on some pages. Binding tight and firm. Rare !

40. Swain, John / French, Sally / Cameron, Colin.

Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society.

Buckingham, Philadelphia, Open University Press, 2003. 23cm x 15.2cm. XI, 198 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. [Disability, Human Rights & Society]