Fine Books & Manuscripts

FREUD, Sigmund (1856–1939). The Interpretation of Dreams...Authorised Translation of Third Edition with Introduction by A.A. Brill. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. 8vo. [blank with asterisk on recto], [iii]-xiii, [1], [1]-510, [blank]. Without errata slip. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST AMERICAN ISSUE with the integral title indicating priority over the second state (which included a cancel title from unbound sheets from the London issue once Macmillan ran out). Publisher’s grey-blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt (spine ends gently bumped, joints starting, previous ownership signature stamp to ffep; AN UNUSUALLY CLEAN AND SQUARE COPY). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label lettered in gilt. This American edition is considered to have priority over the English edition. Reiber & Gach 167. This work is “unquestionably Freud’s greatest...It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the ‘Oedipus complex,’ the libido and the rest; all related to the background of the ‘unconscious,’ later to be called the ‘sub-conscious” (Printing and the Mind of Man 389).