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Published by Noonday Press/Farrar Strauss & Giroux, New York, 1970
Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Subtitled "Sex-Economic Problems of Biological Energy." Tenth printing. Moderate wear and occasional spotting to covers. Tanning to pages. No ownership marks, inscriptions or underlining. No reading crease to spine. Binding is firm. 360 pages. s148.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Expanding a 1928 paper "On Character Analysis" that forged the way for "a new epoch in psychoanalysis,'' Reich here incorporates Freud's notion of "overcoming resistances" in the patient to examine "character resistances" that serve as a type of armor, & that must be overcome. Since the publication of the first edition of this work in 1933, published in German, & a second edition in English in 1945, this current Third Enlarged Edition from 1949 further expands his theories with his work on "cosmic orgone energy" & new understanding of the biological basis of neurosis. In 516 pages, including Index & the author's prefaces to all three editions, this hardcover 8vo has tan cloth-covered boards stamped with dark brown lettering to front & spine. Exceptionally clean & bright, pages white, binding straight & strong, hinges secure. Down, pages white. Downgraded to VG+ due to former owner's underlining in pencil to many sentences in a section on the treatment of a schizophrenic woman & his name stamp to bottom outside page edge; else totally clean. The unclipped DJ is VG, with chipping at both ends of spine, underlining in pen to both flaps, slight spine fading; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Published by Orgone Institute Press Inc, New York, 1946
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) xxiv, 344 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Small tear in spine cloth, else Near Fine, contents toned with age, in a Very Good dust jacket, toned, chipped at extremities, small internal tear to spine panel, price-clipped. One of the renegade Freudian psychologist's most influential works, which posits sexual repression as the genesis of authoritarianism.
Published by Orgone Institute, NY, 1948
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Condition: Very good. Ex libris Israel Regardie with his large printed bookplate on front pastedown Fair. Broken into three pieces with tattered edges and missing pices. Most of spine is gone Tan cloth with maroon lettering. 8vo.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First English Edition. xxiv, 344 pages. Index. Translated from the German manuscript of the third, revised and enlarged edition. Earlier German editions were "smuggled across the German border in great numbers and enthusiastically received by the illegal revolutionary movement. The Fascists banned it in 1935." - xiv. The ten chapters include: Authoritarian Family Ideology and the Mass Psychology of Fascism; The Race Theory; The Symbolism of the Swastika; Organized Mysticism - The International Antisexual Organization; Some Problems of Sex-Political Practice; The Masses and the State; and more. Binding sound. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is patched at spine ends and preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Kehr & Langmaid 258, Madden p.55. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Orgone Institute Press Inc, New York, 1946
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) xxiv, 344 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering.A few faint smudges to cloth, else Fine. In a beautiful example of the extremely thin, cheaply-made, fragile dust jacket, Fine, unclipped, with trifling shelf wear but very bright and white despite its age. Rare in such nice shape. One of the renegade Freudian psychologist's most influential works, which posits sexual repression as the genesis of authoritarianism.
Published by Orgone Institute Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First American edition. xxviii, 273 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with blue lettering. Tiny stain to top edge, else Fine in an excellent example of the rare, fragile dust jacket: basically Fine with trivial shelf wear and toning. Rare in such nice shape.The first English language edition of the radical psychologist's Die Sexualitat im Kulturkampf, first published in Germany in 1930.
Published by Orgone Institute Press Inc, New York, 1946
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First American edition. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) Signed by Wilhelm Reich on the front free endpaper and inscribed to his second wife, "To Ilse Ollendorff, with my heartfelt thank [sic] for all her help Aug. 1946 Wilhelm Reich." xxiv, 344 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with light edge wear; staining to rear board. Spine slightly mottled; contents lightly toned. In a Near Fine unclipped supplied jacket with light toning, small tear to rear joint at foot, and rubbing to rear panel. One of the renegade Freudian psychologist's most influential works, which posits sexual repression as the genesis of authoritarianism. A terrific association copy inscribed to his second wife (a partner in his highly unorthodox research in the US during the 1940s and early 1950s, and mother to his son) whom he would marry that year. They would stay together until 1951, when Reich discovered DOR and began constructing his famous cloudbusters. Signed copies of Reich's books are quite uncommon in the market.