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"what first attracts our interest in the person of Moses is his name": First Edition of Freud's Moses And Monotheism; Inscribed by Him To His Niece
FREUD, SIGMUND.
Moses And Monotheism.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939.
First American edition of last book written and published in Sigmund Freud’s lifetime. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To dear Poppy from Uncle Sigm. London 1939.” The eldest daughter of Freud’s elder brother, Philipp, Pauline “Poppy” Freud was born in 1873 when Sigmund was seventeen years old. Freud visited Pauline and her parents in Manchester, England periodically throughout her childhood and maintained correspondence with Pauline well into her adulthood, visiting her and her husband, Frederick Oswald Hartwig, in London in 1939. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Freud association copies of this magnitude seldom enter the marketplace.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 67018
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Rare Sigmund Freud Offprint Die medizin der gegenwart in selbstdarstellungen; Inscribed by Him to His Niece
FREUD, SIGMUND.
Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen.
Leipzig: Felix Meiner 1925.
First offprint edition of this work by Freud. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Freud. Association copy, inscribed by Freud to his niece Lucy Wiener on the front panel, “onkel Sigm.” In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 102984
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First Edition of Nell Freudenberger's Lost and Wanted; Signed by Her
FREUDENBERGER, NELL.
Lost and Wanted.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2019.
First edition of this “intelligent and moving novel” (Los Angeles Times Review of Books). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nell Freudenberger. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 127638
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First edition in English of Sigmund Freud's A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; In the Rare Original Dust jacket
FREUD, SIGMUND.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
New York: Horace Liveright 1920.
First edition in English of the most popular and widely translated of Freud’s works, containing 28 lectures regarding his views on the unconscious, dreams, and neuroses. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Authorized translation with a preface by G. Stanley Hall. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature to the pastedown. Rare with only a handful of examples appearing at auction in the last 90 years.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 137144
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First edition in English of Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id; Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
FREUD, SIGMUND.
The Ego and the Id.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927.
Rare first edition in English of Freud’s classic study of the human psyche. Octavo, original cloth. Authorized translation by Joan Riviere. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 137877
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First Edition in English of Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo; With the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FREUD, SIGMUND.
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company 1918.
First American edition of Freud’s classic collection of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung inspired essays. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, ownership inscription to the front pastedown and light marginalia. An excellent example, rare in the original publisher’s dust jacket with $2.00 price and publisher’s list.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147070
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Rare First Edition, First Issue of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; From the Library of bassoonist and musicologist William Waterhouse
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN.
Sinfonie mit Schluss-Chor uber Schillers Ode: “An die Freude” fur grosses Orchester, 4 Solo- und 4 Chor-Stimmen componirt und Seiner Majestaet dem Konig von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm III in tiefster Ehrfurcht kugeeignet von Ludwig van Beethoven. [The Ninth Symphony].
Mainz and Paris: B. Schotts Sohnen 1826.
Exceptionally rare first edition, first issue of one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world, containing the subscribers’ list, but not the composer’s notorious metronome markings which were added in later issues. Quarto, bound in nineteenth-century marbled boards with a blank label to the front panel, all edges yellow, printed with plate number 2322, subscribers’ list present, illustrated with a lithographic title page and engraved with music throughout. Inscribed by William Waterhouse on the front free endpaper, “from Robert Hermann London…” William Waterhouse was an English bassoonist and musicologist who played with notable orchestras in the twentieth century and recorded all the wind chamber music by Beethoven with the Melos Ensemble. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and traces of the original pale blue wrappers to outer pages, no plate number to page 191, and blank final leaf missing. An excellent example with remarkably deep, clean impressions.
Price: $55,000.00 Item Number: 146837