The Behavior of Organisms an Experimental Analysis by Skinner B F, First Edition (4 results)

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: 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.