Jungle Mind by Swift Edgar James (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. 340pp, black cloth w/ green design & silver lettering, slight soiling & wear to cover, some small tears to dj, slight soiling & edgewear to dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/Good Dj. 1st Edition. 8vo no stamps names or markups.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing (Scribner A on the copyright page). 340 pp. including index. The boards are somewhat bowed. The edges have spots of foxing. In a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Full black cloth with silver titles and green stamped designs. ix, 340 pp. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Notes to rear endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to extremities, long tear to foot of front fore edge, short tears repaired with tape. With wit and learning Dr. Swift examines some of the cults that flourish today--astrology, mental telepathy, new thought, psychoanalysis, numerology, and all the others. He shows how these superstitions trap an innocent and well-intended person, confusing his mind, preventing him from having a healthy and constructive life, or from being aware that he walks in error. Dr. Swift has gathered hundreds of anecdotes which illustrate how these modern cults (really old superstitions) turn the minds of those who believe in them into a jungle of worthless ideas. He dissects these cults, examines their origins, and traces the manner of their survival into our own day. |He also shows how recent discoveries have been so marvelous as to make it easy to believe in anything; how advances in each branch of science of have been attended by an increase in a corresponding superstition; and how old superstitions, deriving from the childhood of the race, take on a pseudo-scientific jargon and win converts.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, black cloth lettered in silver with green cover design. First edition, first printing. From the library of William Henry Welch, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper. Physician, pathologist, and educator, Welch served as the first dean of the medical school at Johns Hopkins University, where he had an influential role in reforming medical education. A poignant association copy.