Author: Chelpanov, Georgii (Prof.)
Title: Uchebnik Psiikhologii (Dlia Gimnazii I Samoobrazovaniia)
Description: Kharbin: Elektro-Tipografii "Trudovoe T-vo" Br. Moshkovich, Makhlin i Bursuk, 1922. Softcover. First edition thus (abridged from the 13th edition published in Russia); 6 x 9; pp. 172; rebound in plain brown wraps with original tissue endpapers present; thin band of discoloration and spotting along margins of first and last several pages; several notes written to back endpaper; penciled-in notations on some pages and, interestingly enough, several passages crossed out in pencil as if previous owner did not care for them or thought them unimportant; Harbin bookshops' stamps to title page; corners a bit creased; good condition. Professor Georgii Chelpanov was a renowned Russian psychologist and philosopher of the neo-Kantianism and Positivism schools in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. He was the founder of the Psychological Institute at Moscow University and one of his books, "The Brain and the Soul" (1900), was described in V. Zenkovsky's book on the history of Russian philosophy as 'the best not only in Russian but in world literature.' His textbook of Psychology was the one commonly used not only in Russia but in emigre communities abroad as well. Ill.: 0. 3.

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