WEBER, Max.

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie.

Tübingen, Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1920-21.

First edition thus, a collection of Weber’s work on religion including his most famous and controversial essay, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), as well as his studies of ancient Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. Weber...

£225

WEBER, Max.

Wirtschaftsgeschichte … Abriss der universalen Sozial- und Wirtschafts-geschichte. Aus den nachgelassenen Vorlesungen...

Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1923.

First edition of this posthumous compilation of lectures.

£60

WUNDT, Wilhelm; James Edward CREIGHTON and Edward Bradford TITCHENER, translators.

Lectures on human and animal psychology....

London and New York, Sonnenschein and Macmillan, 1894.

First edition in English, first published 1863-1864. A significant appearance in English considering the establishment of Sully’s laboratory at University College London in 1898, Wundt’s lectures developed a scientific link between psychology and anatomy through experiments on sensation, by...

£100

WUNDT, Wilhelm.

Julia GULLIVER and Edward Bradford TITCHENER, translators. Facts of the moral life.

London and New York, Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1897.

First edition in English, first published as Ethik, eine Untersuchung der Tatsachen und Geseze des stlichen Lebens (Ethics, an investigation of the facts etc.) in 1886. This is a more broadly sociological work and a departure from Wundt’s scientific sociology, considering social groups and actions...

£125

ZIMMERMANN, [Johann Georg].

Solitude considered, in regard to its influence upon the mind and the heart. Written originally in...

London, Printed for John Fairbairn and Archibald Constable, 1797.

Rare late edition of Zimmermann’s immensely popular Solitude, first published 1756, the first appearing in English in 1779. Its combination of rational philosophy and irrational, romantic melancholy caught the mood of the later eighteenth century. Zimmermann’s own romantic eccentricity comes...

£250

ANDERSON, Nels.

The Hobo. The sociology of the homeless man.

Chicago, University Press, 1923.

First edition of Nels Anderson’s first book, and a seminal work of the Chicago School of Sociology: it was the first monograph in the University of Chicago Sociological Series and – as a pioneering work that used participant observation as a research method to reveal the features of a society –...

£150

BRECKENRIDGE, Sophonisba Preston.

Legal tender. A study in English and American monetary history. [Decennial Publications, second...

Chicago, University Press, 1903.

First edition, rare in commerce. A detailed history of coinage from medieval English history to modern American banking. Sophonisba Breckenridge (1866-1948) was the first woman to earn a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago, thereafter joining the newly founded law school, becoming...

£160

BURGESS, Ernest W, editor.

The urban community.

Chicago, University Press, 1927.

Second edition, first published 1926. Something of a tour-de-force of the Chicago School’s ideas, with an introduction by Park and essays by several prominent names including Thomas, Wirth, Bogardus, Reckless and Zorbaugh.

£40

HILLER, Ernest Theodore.

The strike: a study in collective action. Introduction by Robert E. Park.

Chicago, University Press, 1928.

First edition. The introduction is by Robert E. Park, who was one of the founders of the Chicago School and on the editorial board of the Sociological Series. Hiller studies historic strikes by miners and hop-pickers to narrate a typical strike and study the characteristics of strikers and strike-breakers....

£120

MACIVER, Robert Morrison.

As a tale that is told. The autobiography of R. M. MacIver.

Chicago, University Press, 1968.

First edition, a nice presentation copy of MacIver’s somewhat self-indulgent autobiography, an interesting account of American sociology in the 1920s and 30s including his time teaching at Barnard College, the women’s college of Columbia University.

£100

MOWRER, Ernest R.

Family disorganization.

Chicago, University Press, 1927.

First edition. A study of divorce and desertion in families, related to Isaac’s and Znaniecki’s work on The Polish peasant in America (1918-20), which recorded cases of the disintegration of family life through the same ‘case-study methods’.

From the University of Chicago Sociological Series.

£75

OGBURN, William Fielding, editor.

Recent social changes.

Chicago, University Press, 1929.

First edition, essays on all aspects of social life in America.

From the University of Chicago Sociological Series.

£75

OGBURN, William Fielding, editor.

American society in wartime. The Charles R. Walgreen Foundation lectures.

Chicago, University Press, 1943.

First edition. Eleven lectures by major sociologists delivered at the University’s Social Science Research Building in the autumn of 1942.

£40

PARK, Robert Ezra.

Human communities: the city and human ecology. [The collected papers of Robert Ezra Park, volume II].

Glencoe, IL, Free Press, 1952.

First edition. A work absolutely typical of Chicago School sociology, covering hobos, criminal delinquency, and using tribal ethnology (e.g. magic) in the urban context. Park, along with Ernest W. Burgess, was a leading figure of the Chicago School, co-editing the Sociological Series published by the...

£120

PIERSON, Donald.

Negroes in Brazil. A study of race contact at Bahia.

Chicago, University Press, 1942.

First edition of Pierson’s study into the history of race relations in Brazil, and of racial intermarriage. This was based on his doctoral study at the University of Chicago.

From the University of Chicago Sociological Series.

£80

RICE, Stuart A.

Methods in social science.

Chicago, University Press, 1937.

Second edition, first published 1931. A text-book of the Chicago School.

£30

SHAW, Clifford R.

The jack-roller. A delinquent boy’s own story. [Behavioral Research Fund Monographs].

Chicago, University Press, 1930.

First edition. A typical study of the school, charting the life and downfall of a single semifictional delinquent, called “Stanley”, as he joins a gang in the criminal underworld of Chicago. A ‘jack-roller’ was a criminal who hung around on street-corners to rob passing drunks. Shaw propounded...

£100

SHAW, Clifford R and Maurice E.

MOORE. The natural history of a delinquent career.

Chicago, University Press, 1931.

First edition of what is essentially a sequel to The Jack-roller (1930), this time charting “Sidney” in his journey to the bottom, and told as if from his own mouth.

£75

[SIMMEL, Georg.]

SPYKMAN, Nicholas J. The social theory of Georg Simmel.

Chicago, University Press, 1925.

First edition. An interesting study that identifies Simmel as a predecessor to the Chicago School, and acts as a tribute from this ‘new school’ to Simmel, whom Spykman credits with the formulation of a separate branch of scientific sociology based on ‘group unity’, i.e. the collective interaction...

£80

SMALL, Albion.

The Meaning of Social Science.

Chicago, University Press, 1910.

First edition. An interesting book of lectures by Small, delivered at Chicago, in which he staked a claim for the legitimacy of sociology but also for its methods as developed by his own colleagues, including W. I. Thomas in the Source book for social origins (1909).

£75