John Langdon Davies (426 results)

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Parachutes Over Britain 1940. Book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. No Jacket. None Listed. 255 pp, the book is x-library with date due slip and card pocket remnants in the rear endpapers, an article about the book is glued on the front erndpaper, the title page has athe library stamp marked out with a black crayon, the pages are clean and tight, covers are tight and have some soscattered soil and scuffing, the cover corners are bumped.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good in HC. Missing title page. Note inside front cover. Wear to title on spine. Tight binding, square corners. A good reading copy. 382 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. MAN AND HIS UNIVERSE, John Langdon-Davies, hardcover, stated first edition, a few illustrations, 1930. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. The bookplate of a prior owner is affixed to the first free endpaper. Light foxing on the endpapers. Not a library book or remainder. The black boards are in good condition (bumped corners, lightly faded and bumped spine). 9 ½ x 6 ½, 341 pages, 28 ounces XX [From Wikipedia] Langdon-Davies' man and his universe (1930) was a history of humanity's scientific views, covering the period from Ancient Greece to Einstein. XX John Eric Langdon-Davies MBE (18 March 1897 - 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid Organisation Plan International. Author of books on military, scientific, historical and Spanish (including Catalan) subjects, Langdon-Davies has been described as an accomplished war correspondent and a brilliant popularizer of science and technology. Langdon-Davies was born in Eshowe, Zululand (now in South Africa) in 1897. He was the son of the teacher Guy Langdon-Davies (died 1900), who described himself as a Huxleyan, a Voltairean and a Tolstoyan pacifist. Langdon-Davies came to England at the age of six and attended Yardley Park prep school and Tonbridge School (he disliked the latter intensely). His first published work was an article entitled The Hermit Crab, which appeared on the young people's page of The Lady in 1910. In 1917, he published The Dream Splendid, a book of poetry inspired by the beauty of nature. When called up in 1917 he declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to wear uniform. This resulted in a short term in prison before being given a medical discharge. He intended to continue his academic career at St John's College, Oxford, but one of his three scholarships was removed consequent upon his military record. Another, tenable only by a single man, was removed when he married Constance Scott, a history graduate from Somerville College, in 1918. The resulting financial situation forced him to abandon his university career, which ended with a diploma in anthropology and history. In 1919 Langdon-Davies wrote Militarism in Education, published by Headley Brothers, a study of the effect of the militarist and nationalist content of various educational systems. He stressed the importance of environment and early influences in the education of the young, compared with heredity. He also made his first visit to Catalonia, after which, in 1921, he and Connie, with their two small sons, settled for more than two years in the Pyrenean village of Ripoll, where he met groups of left-wing intellectuals and Catalan nationalists. He lived in New York between 1925 and 1926, during which time he wrote The New Age of Faith, a book of scientific popularization. In it, he attacked the pseudoscientists whose books were so popular in the US, particularly advocates of racial superiority.…

Hardcover. very good condition dustjacket has minor edgewear and tears; dustjacket has minor edgewear and tears; LIB2958011192.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Folder with documents inside. The folder has light wear, a little staining. Inside includes all 9 documents and 5 broadsheets; complete. Some facsimile. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN: 0305608975. ISBN/EAN: 9780305608972. Inventory No: 226840.

Condition: Good. 1st edition thus. Imitation cloth, G+. [viii]+244pp+4pp publishers adverts, ownership name to the endpaper, single ink line to the margin of one page, corners rubbed & bumped. Thinkers Library volume 72. Another volume in the Rationalist Press Association's' 'Thinker's Library' series, a series which was intended to further the Association's aims of publishing literature that was too anti-religious to be handled by mainstream publishers and booksellers. A study of the development of the idea of Woman from the primitive taboo, the Christian fear, worship of fertility, etc. John Langdon Davies [ 1897 - 1971 ] British author and journalist. 250 grams. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/1/2" strip missing at top edge, unclipped price, in mylar; 334 clean, unmarked pags. B/W Illus (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. THE NEW AGE OF FAITH by John Langdon-Davies, Garden City Publishing Company Star Series, hardback with no dust jacket, copyright 1925 by The Viking Press. Book Condition: Fair. The text block is in near fine condition, with no marks or dog-ears, but there are small tears at the tops of pages 85-90. The pages are age-tanned. Tight binding. Not a remainder or library book. No bookplate nor inscription of previous owner. The black boards are in fair to poor condition (smudges and spots, shelf rubbing and denting along upper edges, bumping of a few corners). The spine is spotted and bumped. 8 ¼ x 5 ½, 255 pages, 18 oz. Please note that because this book weighs over one-pound, additional postage will be necessary for any shipments outside the US. Please contact me before buying if you do not live in the US. XX [Wikipedia] John Eric Langdon-Davies (18 March 1897 - 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish war. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, now a huge international organisation called Plan. He was awarded the MBE for services to the Home Guard. Author of books on military, scientific, historical and Spanish (including Catalan) subjects, Langdon-Davies has been described as "an accomplished war correspondent" and "a brilliant popularizer of science and technology". Langdon-Davies came to England at the age of six and attended Yardley Park Prep school and Tonbridge School (he disliked the latter intensely). His first published work was an article entitled "The Hermit Crab", which appeared on the young people's page of The Lady in 1910. When called up in 1917 he declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to wear uniform. This resulted in a short term in prison before being given a medical discharge. He intended to continue his academic career at St John's College, Oxford, but one of his three scholarships was removed consequent upon his military record. Another, tenable only by a single man, was removed when he married Constance Scott in 1918. The resulting financial situation forced him to abandon his university career, which ended with a diploma in anthropology and history. In 1919 Langdon-Davies wrote Militarism in Education, published by Headley Brothers, a study of the effect of the militarist and nationalist content of various educational systems. In 1924 he began a series of lecture tours in the US, speaking to women's associations and universities on history, literature and his own work. He also spent a year living in New York between 1925 and 1926, during which time he wrote The New Age of Faith, a book of scientific popularisation, published by the Viking Press …. In it, he heartily attacked the pseudoscientists whose books were so popular in the US, particularly advocates of racial superiority, such as Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, whom Langdon-Davies described as "Race Fiends". That provoked a number of counterattacks, pointing out that Langdon-Davies himself was not a professional scientist. Most of the 60 or more published reviewers were in agreement with John Bakeless, who wrote that "rarely has popular science been written with such spicy impertinence, such gay insouciance, or with so much intelligence and such scrupulous regard for facts.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 382 Pages; 7 Chapters With Introduction In Front. Moderate Page Wear; No Markings On Pages; Page Edges Cut Roughly And Slightly Darkened. Pages Tight. Dark Blue Hard Covers With Gild Lettering On Front Cover And Spine. Minor Shelf Wear. Corners Slightly Bumped. Chapter Headings Include: The Biological Background To Woman's History; Women In Primitive Society; The Birth Of Fear And Contempt; The Ancient Civilizations: Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome; Women And The Early Christian Church; The Middle Ages: The Witch, The Virgin And The Chatelaine; Modern Times: From Womanly Woman To Intelligent Being; Epilogue: The Future. Rare Vintage Copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st American Edition. Extra clean, tight, without marks, bumps, etc. There is a small wear through bottom corners . Author dated signature on free endpaper ( April 7, 1932 ). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dark red cloth, gold lettering, no dj, lightly rubbed. Sex; 30366.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Withdrawn library. 1930/2nd printing hardcover. NO DJ. Major wear and tear to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Wraps are scuffed with edgewear. FEP loose from binding. Pages are lightly tanning & text is free from markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. hardcover in good condition with fair dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A hardcover non-fiction in good to very good condition. Pen markings on the first flyleaf. Other pages are remarkably clean and bright, without markings. The cover is clean and well-preserved, with no major signs of wear.