Freud, Sigmund

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (238 x 154mm.), 24 pages of publisher's advertisements at front dated January 1891, woodcut illustrations in text, uncut in the original grey printed paper wrappers, modern board slipcase, backstrip torn at head and defective at foot, advertisements becoming detached, small library stamp obscured at head of advertisements and at end of text

Grinstein, Freud 2; Norman F16

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FIRST EDITION OF FREUD'S FIRST BOOK, on acquired language disorders caused by damage to the brain. "Freud's treatise on aphasia, his first book, was little known or appreciated by contemporary neurologists, but Freud always regarded it as the most significant of his neurological writings" (Norman). Of the 850 copies printed in 1891, only 257 had been sold by 1900 when the remainder were pulped.

For a group of autograph letters by Freud, see lots 140-144.