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Clarence B. Farrar Library Acquisition
Prominent Psychiatrist, Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and life-long book collector.
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BALLARD, J. G. Crash.
London: Cape, (1973).First edition. About fine in an about fine d/w.
$1,250.00 (CAD)
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(SCOTT, Walter). Peveril of the Peak.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. In four volumes. First edition, first issue of Vol. I, second issue of volumes II-IV. Name, some light wear along the upper front hinge, some light rubbing to the spine ends, but this is in fact, a fine set in the original boards. Todd & Bowden A 165a & b.
$2,500.00
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PACKARD, Mrs. E.P. W. Modern Persecution, Or Insane Asylums Unveiled As Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Published by the Authoress. (Volume II titled: Modern Persecution or Married Woman's Liabilities, as Demonstrated by the Illinois Legislature).
Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1873. In two volumes. First edition. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his bookplate and notes on the rear e/paper. 8vo., orig. brown cloth with gilt decoration on the covers, elaborate gilt on the spine, A.E.G., xxxii, 402; viii, 406pp. With illustrations. A fine bright copy of a scarce edition.
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard [1816-1897] reformer, "whose experience in a
mental hospital launched her on a career as an advocate of married women's
rights and protective legislation for the insane.....Mrs. Packard's
influence on popular attitude toward mental hospitals was more important
than the laws for which she was responsible. She not only solicited
newspaper publicity, she talked at length to everyone who bought one of her
books. " Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] "trained under several of the foremost
medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg
under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof.
Charles Clarke, the University's inaugural head of Psychiatry, to succeed
him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric
Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until
1947, setting the stage for the TPH to continue as the Department's
clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in
1966 by the Clarke Institute." Dr. Farrar also served as the editor of the
American Journal of Psychiatry. (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto
Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter).
$1,250.00
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TUKE, D. Hack. A Dictionary Of Psychological Medicine. Giving The Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology. With the Symptoms, Treatment and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by...
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1892. In two volumes. First edition. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his bookplate and signature. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, xvi, 722; 723-1477pp. With a frontispiece in volume one. A fine, bright copy.
Price $1,000.00
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Beyond Good And Evil. Prelude To A Philosophy Of The Future. Authorised Translation by Helen Zimmern.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1907. First edition in English. (This copy has two title pages for no discernable reason. The second title has the imprint of "The Good European Society" "Foulis Press" and "The Dairen Press" also dated 1907.) 8vo., orig. dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, (xvi), 268, (3)pp.ads. Endpapers browned, small name, o/w a fine copy.
$850.00 (CAD)
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Inscribed by Robert Frost
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FROST, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
New York: Henry Holt, (1957). Seventh printing. Inscribed to Dr. C.B. Farrar "... from Robert Frost, 1958." Bookplate o/w a fine copy in d/w with wear to the spine ends and corner and tape repairs to the lower corners and the foot of the spine, but certainly very good.
$1,750.00 (CAD)
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MAXWELL, W. H. Wanderings In the Highlands and Islands, With Sketches taken on the Scottish Border; Being a Sequel to "Wild Sports of the West."
London: A.H. Baily, & Co., 1844. In two volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth with a small gilt decoration on the upper covers, 16pp.ads., viii, 334; viii, 354pp. Bookplates, spines with a bit of wear but certainy a very good set.
$600.00 (CAD)
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JAMES, William. The Principles of Psychology.
London: Macmillan, (1890). In two volumes. First English edition of the author's first book. Tall thick 8vo., orig. blue cloth, xii, (690); vi, 704pp. Inner hinges of volume one cracked, 1" split in the top of the outer spine gutter of volume two o/w a near fine copy.
"William James 'The Principles of Psychology' is widely considered to be the most important text in the history of modern psychology. Twelve years in the writing, The Principles, was, and in many ways still is, a document unique in the history of human thought. It's author was not only completely conversant with the psychological literature in English, but with that in French, German, and Italian; and, as a result, The Principles presented the discipline for the first time as a truly international endeavour. James was also an artist, with the artist's eye for shading and detail, and one of the English language's truly great prose stylists.....It is impossible in brief to summarize the many ways in which James 'Principles,' read and assimilated by those coming to maturity in the decades following its publication, altered the course of the development of the newly emerging scientific psychology. James's views, especially those on the stream of consciousness, played a major role in shifting psychology away from elementalism toward a functional, process oriented account of mind and eventually of behaviour. James's concern with emotion, motivation, and the nature of the self, the social self, and self-esteem, not only lay the groundwork for dynamic psychology, but for a dynamic psychology that recognized the importance of social factors in personality. And James's deep and abiding concern with exceptional mental states helped legitimize an emerging, indigenous American psychotherapy and paved the way for the eventual acceptance of psychoanalysis within psychology." (Wozniak Classics in Psychology 1855-1914: Historical Essays, 1999).
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MARTINEAU, Harriet. Miss Martineau's Letters on Mesmerism.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. printed wrappers, (28), (4)pp.ads, double columns. There are a few small nicks o/w this is a near fine copy of a delicate item.
"Martineau was one of the most unusual and influential women of nineteenth-century England... she first gained success through the publication of her Illustratons of Political Economy (1832 - 1834). In addition to writing prolifically on politics and economics, she was also a successful novelist and writer of children's stories. In 1844 Martineau was cured of a serious illness through animal magentism, and in this collection of her letters she discharges her 'duty' to make the truth about mesmerism known. She had known about mesmerism for some time, and when her illness became debilitatitng, a medical friend brought her to the famous mesmerist Spencer Hall, who was then lecturing at Newcastle. He mesmerized Martineau and the beneficial effects were immediate. Martineau first had her maid and then another woman mesmerize her regularly. After consistent treatment of this kind, Martineau recovered. During the mesmeric treatments, she often experienced powerful distortions of sensation which she describes in some detail in the letters" [Crabtree #522].
$500.00 (CAD)
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