In Dust Jacket

Civilization and Its Discontents. Authorized Translation by Joan Riviere.

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1930.

Price: $5,000.00


About the item

First English edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 17. Portrait frontispiece after the photo by Max Halberstadt. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket. Original green cloth. Very good plus (some soiling to cloth), in very good dust jacket (toned, lacking a small portion at top of back panel). Woolmer 223.

Item #325539

Freud’s masterful meditation on the human condition, and one of his last works. No. 17 of The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by Ernest Jones.
Freud’s work occupied a central place in the history of the twentieth century and the way in which the western world came to view and understand itself.
The dust jacket is uncommon.