The Behavior of Organisms an Experimental Analysis by Skinner B F (10 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. Full leather binding with gilt edges, lettering and decorations on covers and spine. Marbled endpapers. Sewn-in bookmark. Accompanying "Notes from the Editors" laid in. Publisher's bookplate, with name of former owner and copy number, on inside front cover. A beautiful copy in every respect.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is creased; some shelf wear; former owner's name is stamped on the inner front cover and ffep with a signature in ink on the ffep as well; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Brown and black wrapper with white lettering. 457 historical and informative pages! "Two other theoretico-experimental analyses of behavior compose the historical setting in which this book should be evaluated. Tolman's Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men preceded The Behavior of Organisms by six years; Hull's Principles of Behavior followed it by five. The three books differed in many ways: they undertook to solve different problems, and they sought solutions in different places. My debt to Sherrington, Magnus, and Pavlov is obvious in my continuing use of the word 'reflex.' I held to the term even after I had begun to distinguish between emitted and elicited behavior - between 'respondents' and 'operants' - for I wanted to preserve the notion of reflex strength." ---- from the Preface to the Seventh Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Originally published by Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1938, part of The Century Psychology Series. Copy no. 370 with bookplate on front pastedown. 457 p. 22 cm. Navy leather with gilt impressing and text block edges, gold ribbon. Marbled endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. , as pictured Very good condition leather gently read clean pages with bookplate Facsimile of Skinner's first book from 1938 , the foundation of radical behaviourism,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bound in publisher's original full brown leather with spine and covers stamped in decorative gilt. All edges gilt. Yellow ribbon bookmark. Marbled endpapers. Privately printed for the members of The Classics of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Library. Former owner's bookplate, provided by the publisher, is tipped in and can be removed upon request. Publisher's original "Notes from The Editors" booklet is also provided. One of the foundational books in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 457 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition, with (I) printed at the end of the final page. Tall octavo. 457pp. Black cloth gilt. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly, upper corner of cover and front fly a bit bumped, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a corresponding bump and toning on the spine and lower panel. A very nice copy of a pivotal text in 20th Century psychology and sociology.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Signed and briefly inscribed by Skinner upon title page. x, 457 pp. "Here Skinner defines his basic unit of behavior, the operant, proposes rate as the basic datum, and describes his research program to identify the variables of which behavior is a function." - B.F. Skinner Foundation. In 2002 a study in the Review of General Psychology declared Skinner the most eminent psychologist of the twentieth century. This copy appears to be a 1970s facsimile reprint of the author's landmark first book first published in 1938. Black boards adorned with brilliant gilt and maroon. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent example. ISBN 0130732133.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; B.F. Skinner Psychology Behavior Signed EAB Experimental analysis of Behavior Operant; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In this, Skinner's first book, he "launched a new science based on selection by consequences as the mechanism through which behavior changes during the lifetime of the individual. The book summarizes nearly ten years of research, spanning the years of Skinner's graduate school days at Harvard through his three years as a member of the Society of Fellows. Here he defines his basic unit of behavior, the operant, proposes rate as the basic datum, and describes his research program-to identify the variables of which behavior is a function." - B.F. Skinner Foundation. ix, [1], 457 pages. References. Index. Name of Arthur Gladstone stamped atop front free endpaper is presumably that of the Swarthmore College professor who edited the 'Bulletin of the Research Exchange on the Prevention of War' in the 1950s. Ink marginal lines and/or marginalia on approximately 23 pages appear recent. Dust jacket not included. Moderate wear to original black cloth. Bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding tight.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Behavior of Organisms - An Experimental Analysis: The Century Psychology Series Skinner B.F. Behavioral Theory Reflex Operant Conditioning EAB Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first issue. ix, 457 pp. Original black cloth. Very Good+. The Century Psychology Series. 800 copies of the first edition were printed in the summer of 1938 and published in September, of which 500 were bound in black cloth. The remaining 300 were bound in light green cloth and issued in the mid-1940s.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing denoted by "I" on last page of text. Signed by B.F. Skinner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with titles blocked in blind on the upper board and stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth at edges, three small stains to rear cover, spine gilt slightly dulled. Pages toned and lower corners of early pages bumped. Former owner name Mungo Miller to front free endpaper, most likely the research scientist who published a paper entitled "Observation of Initial Visual Experience in Rats" in a 1948 issue of The Journal of Psychology. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, spine toned and lightly worn at the crown. The psychologist's first book, a milestone in the experimental analysis of behavior. Signed copies are incredibly scarce.