Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. 345pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped ($11.50) dust jacket with light shelf wear and small spot of rubbing to front panel. An attractive copy of an influential work about perception and cognition. More about Visual Thinking
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition. 116 pp. Original blue wraps. Very Near Fine with slightly bumped corners and toned wraps, miniscule droplet stain to spine, tiny marginal stain to pages 106 and 107. An excellent copy of Chomsky's first published book, which changed the field of... More about Syntactic Structures
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887. 427, 4 pp (ads). First edition, first printing. Publisher's pebbled burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good with cloth rubbed through at corners, chipped at spine ends and faded at spine. Ding to edge of front board. Inner hing slightly started... More about Psychology
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American edition. xxii, 320, viii, (1) pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt with black stamping, red topstain. Near Fine with a little staining to top edge, small smudge on front free endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket with a little chipping at... More about Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1975. Inscribed to previous owners by Erik Erikson on front free endpaper. First edition. 283pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. An uncommon signed work by the oft-cited German-born psychologist and Pulitzer-winning author of Gandhi's... More about Life History and the Historical Moment
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1987. First edition. Signed by Erikson on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. xxvi, 782 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge, slight concavity to spine, in Fine dust jacket. A summary of... More about A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers from 1930 to 1980
New York: Grove Press, 1963. First American edition. 255pp. Original cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine with name on ffep in unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with tears at head, some small edge-chipping and rubbing, about Very Good. A foundational work of post-colonial theory by the late West Indian-born psychiatrist and... More about The Wretched of the Earth
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. First British edition. 255pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed (especially along edges), lightly edge-worn with two slight creases to front panel. A foundational work of post-colonial theory by the late West Indian-born psychiatrist and... More about The Wretched of the Earth
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First American edition. Advance review copy with letter from Selma Shapiro at Pantheon Books about the book laid in, dated April 22, 1965. xiii, 299 pp. Red cloth with black stamping on front, gilt lettering on spine. Very Good+ with spine lettering rubbed, lightly dust-soiled... More about Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine panel, two faint paperclip impressions to top of front panel, little tear near head. A philosophical... More about I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother... A Case of...
Springfield, Illinois & Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas, 1942. Presentation copy inscribed by Freeman on the front free endpaper, "Jerry Ceremland's [?] book, autographed by one of the authors, [signed] Walter Freeman, 8 July 1947." First edition. 337, (1) pp. Navy Holliston Sturdite lettered in gilt. Very Good with waviness to... More about Psychosurgery: Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental...
London: The International Psycho-Analytical Press and George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1922. First edition, first impression. First issue with no mention of Hogarth Press on the title page, and the George Allen and Unwin imprint on the dust jacket. Very Good with gilt stamping a bit oxidized, lightly dust-soiled, and... More about Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American edition, first printing; translated from the third German edition. Very Good. Boards very faintly bowed, cloth darkened at spine, lightly worn at corners and spine ends, and a slight bump to bottom the spine. Previous owner details to front paste down and... More about The Interpretation of Dreams
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American edition, first printing; translated from the third German edition. Very Good, with cloth worn at edges, tips exposed, light wear at spine ends, scratch to head, darkening to spine cloth, offsetting to front end paper with a vintage bookseller ticket to paste... More about The Interpretation of Dreams
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American edition, first printing; translated from the third German edition. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, darkened at spine. Foxing to edge of page block and a bit to prelims and terminals. Offsetting to endsheets, and previous owners rubber stamp and inked... More about The Interpretation of Dreams
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American edition, first printing; translated from the third German edition. About Fine, with previous owner details to front paste down, light touches of rubbing to cloth at tips and a faint scuff to bottom edge of the page block. A stunning copy of... More about The Interpretation of Dreams
Zurich: Rascher, 1950. First edition, first printing. Text in German. Near Fine with several small spots of discoloration to cloth; small, stray ink mark to textblock edge. In a Very Good dust jacket with light sunning to spine and chipping at the head. Scarce in the dust jacket. More about Gestaltungen des Unbewussten
Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1912. First edition. (Garrison/ Morton 4985.2.) 422pp. Recent black leather with gilt spine lettering, original front wrap mounted on front board, back panel creased and laid in at rear. In German. Near Fine with a few easily-erasable pencil underlines and marginal notes, a few light... More about Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Beitrage zur Entwicklungeschichte des Denkens (Psychology of...
Zurich: Rascher, 1952. First edition, first printing. Text in German. Near Fine with sunning to cloth at spine ends; abrasion to front free end paper from effaced owner details. In a Good dust jacket with a split to the front flap fold repaired with tape, and several other tape repairs... More about Naturerklärung und Psyche. Band IV Studien aus dem C.G. Jung-Institut, Zürich
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. Signed by Leary on title page. First edition. 371 pp. White cloth with pink and green stamping, pink decorated endpapers. About Very Good with foxing and staining to cloth & edges, faint old price written on paste down still visible, in lightly edge-worn and... More about The Politics of Ecstasy
Unknown: Unknown, 1934. First edition. 37 pp. Wraps. Near Fine with slight creasing to bottom corner, slight sunning to spine. Includes author's card laid in with address in NYC. An uncommon pamphlet by the founder of modern public relations. An address originally delivered in London at a private meeting, July... More about The Problem of International Propaganda: A New Technique Necessary in Developing Understanding...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First edition. x, 427 pp. Original blue cloth with paper spine label. A Near Fine copy, sans dust jacket, with a bit of very faint mottling to cloth and a few tiny foxing spots to front board, bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper... More about Public Opinion
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Second edition. viii, 303 (1); viii, 324, (4, ads) pp. Original illustrated brown cloth with gilt-lettered spines, gilt topstain, yellow endpapers with publisher's ads. Complete in two volumes. An unsophisticated set that's essentially Very Good with rubbing, wear and fraying to head... More about Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First edition. Signed by McKenna on front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to former owners: "Follow your vision. See your hyperspace!" xii, 237 pp. Original black cloth backstrip and paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt. Near Fine with bumped corners in Near Fine unclipped dust... More about True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's...
London: The Bodley Head, 1947. First edition. 256pp. Blue cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with cloth a little sunned along top edge, corners a little bumped. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket, a little toned, slightly chipped at extremities with some scuffs to back panel. Small envelope mounted on... More about The Kingdom of the Lost