June 2021 Catalogue

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y 11 First Edition Of Skinner’s The Behavior Of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis , 1938 9. SKINNER, Burrhus Frederic. Behavior of Organisms. An Experimental Analysis. New York and London, 1938. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $4200. Click for more info First edition of the foundational work in behavioral analysis and experimental analysis of behavior, in scarce original dust jacket. This work established methods of experimentation in behavioral analysis and the theory underlying them. “Skinner outlines a science of behavior which generates its own laws through an analysis of its own data rather than securing them by reference to a conceptual neural process… The factual part of the book deals largely with this behavior as studied by the author in extensive researches on the feeding responses of rats. The conditioning of such responses is compared with the stimulus conditioning of Pavlov” (American Psychological Association). Owner signature of Dr. Charlotte Z. Brown, a psychiatry/community health professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Book fine, scarce dust jacket with a bit of wear and toning to extremities. A near-fine copy. “A landmark in the experimental analysis of behavior.”— University of Toronto