Psychoanalysis
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LACAN, Jacques.
De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité. 1932
£6,500
First edition of Lacan's first published work. Lacan's ground-breaking thesis, particularly its central narrative of the story of the woman he named Aimée, immediately attracted...
Octavo (235 × 156 mm). Modern brown quarter morocco by Lobstein-Laurenchet, marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt-lettered direct, marbled endpapers, top edge... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
"Über der Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)", 1877
£6,500
First edition of Freud's first published paper. "Freud's second piece of student research, on the function of the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of the primitive fish...
Octavo, Freud's paper pp. 15-27. Original blue printed wrappers. Custom blue cloth folding case, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Folding lithographed plate.... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
The Complete Psychological Works. 1966
£4,750
The Hogarth Press's Standard Edition, the most authoritative collection of the psychoanalytical works of Freud, edited by James Strachey, a former student of Freud's and member of...
24 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. An excellent set. Read more
SKINNER, B. F.
The Behavior of Organisms 1938
£2,500
First edition, first issue, one of 500 copies in black cloth, from a total printing of 800; with the Appleton "(1)" on the last page. The remainder of 300 copies were bound in light...
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover blocked in blind. With the original printed dust jacket. Illustrative graphs in the text. Neat... Read more
(LEARY, Timothy) RORSCHACH, Hermann.
Psychodiagnostics A diagnostic test based on perception 1942
£2,500
First edition in English of the most famous and widely used personality test, together with a rare contemporary offprint describing its application to military selection and...
2 works together, quarto (242 × 180 mm). 1st work: Original yellow cloth, slightly shaken and soiled. With portrait. Inscribed by Timothy Leary and a number of... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens. 1904
£1,500
First edition in book form, first impression, of Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Octavo (242 × 166 mm). Contemporary maroon half cloth, brown patterned sides, titles to spine gilt, patterned endpapers, marbled edges. Ink stamps to title page... Read more
HAMILTON, Allan McLean
Types of Insanity: 1883
£1,350
First edition, uncommon thus. Hamilton (1848-1919), described on the title page as "one of the consulting physicians to the insane asylums of New York City, and the Hudson River...
Quarto (307 × 242 mm) Original printed wraps, professionally resewn and restored at the spine, housed in original brown cloth portfolio, title gilt to the upper... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. 1922
£1,250
First UK edition, first impression. First issue with no mention of the Hogarth Press on the title page. Originally published in December 1922, the Hogarth Press took over the...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, ownership inscription to front free... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. 1905
£1,250
First edition, first impression of Freud's work on jokes and their relationship to the unconscious.
Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. Some light marginal pencil markings. Wrappers rubbed and creased, spine faded, chipped, and repaired. A very good copy. Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Der Witz und Seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. 1905
£925
First edition. Freud argues in this, one of his most famous works, that jokes happen when the conscious allows forbidden thoughts which society suppresses.
Large octavo. Original pale green cloth, front and spine lettered in white, red top-stain, patterned endpapers. Tear in cloth at head of spine and chipping at tail, a... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Totem und Tabu. 1913
£750
First edition, first impression of Totem and Taboo, a collection of four essays exploring anthropological issues from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Octavo. Original blue and white wrappers printed in black. Wrappers browned and lightly rubbed, spine a little chipped, contents uncut. A very good copy. Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Leonardo da Vinci. A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence. 1922
£750
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in Leipzig in 1910, the first UK edition features a new preface by Ernest Jones (1871–1958), the first psychoanalyst...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Partial browning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket that is... Read more
SIDIS, Boris.
The Psychology of Suggestion. 1898
£650
First edition of Sidis's first book. Sidis arrived in America from Russia in 1887 "a friendless and almost penniless immigrant," (H. Addington Bruce, "Boris Sidis - an...
Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, mid-blue surface-paper endpapers. Cloth just a little rubbed at the extremities, front hinge slightly cracked and repaired,... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. 1969
£545
Revised edition. Originally published in 1940.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Light spotting to endpapers. An... Read more
TUCKEY, C[harles] Lloyd.
Psycho-Therapeutics; or, Treatment by Sleep and Suggestion. 1889
£450
First edition. Extremely uncommon. This important and influential work ran into seven editions by 1921, this first edition being remarkably difficult to come by. The first book in...
Octavo, original green cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panels to the boards. Illustrations to the text. Light shelf-wear, internal binding a little cracked in a... Read more
DICHTER, Ernest.
The Psychology of Everyday Living. 1947
£300
First edition, first printing of the book that introduced the new psychoanalytical methods of advertising to the general public and that, more than any other, represents the...
Original tan cloth, lettered in red on the upper board and spine. With the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in the text. Very good in slightly rubbed jacket with... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. 1936
£300
First edition thus, first impression.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at ends of spine, contents toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. 1916
£250
Second English language edition, revised and enlarged.
Octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in dark brown. Pencilled ownership signature to front wrapper. Wrappers rubbed and lightly creased, spine chipped and cracked,... Read more
WILLARD, Sylvester D.
Report on the Condition of the Insane Poor in the County Poor Houses of New York. 1865
£250
First edition. Important milestone in the treatment of the mentally ill in America, uncommon, just 10 copies listed on OCLC. In 1864, Dr. Willard, secretary of the New York Medical...
Octavo. Original maroon pimple-grained cloth on card wraps, title gilt to the upper panel , blind panelling to the wraps, neatly rebacked in paper to match. Lightly... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Der Mann Moses und die Monotheistische Religion. 1939
£250
First edition, first printing, American issue.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. Spine and edges of boards tanned. Endpapers toned. A very... Read more
JAMES, William.
Text-book of Psychology. 1892
£225
First thus, an abridgment of the author's Principles of Psychology of 1890, his first published book. Bookplate of the pioneering American marine biologist Charles Atwood Kofoid to...
Octavo. Original bottle green diapered cloth, title gilt to spine, blind rules to the boards, mid-green surface-paper endpapers. Diagrams to the text. A little... Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. [1922]
£200
Reissued from the American edition of 1916. Scarce in dust jacket.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Light partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed, nicked, and partially... Read more
WINSLOW, L. Forbes.
Recollections of Forty Years. 1910
£195
First edition, decidedly uncommon. The son of Forbes Benignus Winslow, expert on insanity and the law and operator of a number of private madhouses, Winslow took over the running of...
Octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to the spine and the upper board. Portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text. a little rubbed, corners... Read more
(FREUD, Sigmund) TRILLING, Lionel.
Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. 1955
£175
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to the psychologist Annie Reich, wife of Wilhelm Reich, on the front free endpaper, "To Annie Reich, most cordially, Lionel...
Small octavo. Original brown cloth-backed boards, cream paper to covers, titles to spine in silver and to boards in brown. A fine copy. Read more
FREUD, Sigmund.
Collected Papers. Volume I. 1924
£175
First English language edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. Ownership inscription to title page. Binding a little rubbed and marked, corners bumped. A very good copy. Read more
