What's Wrong with the World.

First edition of Chesterton's incisive analysis of modern society. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Association copy, inscribed by Henry James on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For William - Henry James Lamb House July 1910." The recipient, Henry James's older brother William James, is widely considered one of the most influential philosophers of the United States and the "Father of American psychology." James trained as a physician and taught anatomy at Harvard, but never practiced medicine. Instead he pursued his interests in psychology and then philosophy. He wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Among his most influential books are The Principles of Psychology, a groundbreaking text in the field of psychology; Essays in Radical Empiricism, an important text in philosophy; and The Varieties of Religious Experience, an investigation of different forms of religious experience, including theories on mind-cure. In very good condition. An exceptional association.