Notebooks, B.F. Skinner

by B.F. Skinner

Edited, and with an Introduction by Robert Epstein

 

First edition in dust jacket

inscribed by BF Skinner to evolutionary

biologist Stephen Jay Gould

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980. xiii, 386 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Inscribed, "To Stephen Jay Gould with thanks [signed] Fred Skinner." An unmarked copy from the library of Stephen Jay Gould. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with toned spine panel, tiny tear and toning to back panel as well. An excellent association copy between two scientists, both Harvard professors. Skinner is perhaps the best-known behavioral psychologist of all time; Gould is well-known for his work in evolutionary biology and science writing.