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W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1949; First Edition; sm 8vo, 125 pages. First English-language edition of Freud’s last work, first published in German in 1940 and written, in his own words, "to bring together the doctrines of psychoanalysis and to state them, as it were, dogmatically, in the most concise form and in the most positive terms." Very Good Plus, clean, crisp and bright, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a single closed edge tear of 3/4" in length on the top edge of the front panel, and a minute chip at the very upper extremity of the spine panel, unaffecting titles or graphics.

Taylor Instrument Companies, Rochester, NY, 1926; 12mo, 30 pages; illustrated. A guide to weather forecasting through the understanding and use of the barometer, illustrated with numerous photos of Taylor Instrument devices. Topics include the aneroid barometer, stormograph, stormoguide, self-adjusting barometers, meteorological terms, effect of temperature and winds, corrections for elevations above sea level, Beaufort’s wind scale, etc. Very Good, in illustrated wraps. Some minor external soil.

Oxford University Press, NY, 1953; Second Edition, with supplement; 8vo, 781 pages. Hinsie and Shatzky’s Psychiatric Dictionary, first published in 1940 and revised here by the authors to include some 900 new terms. Fine, in green cloth with gold and black titles, no dust jacket. A very sharp copy.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1920; Sixth Edition, Revised; 12mo, 525 pages; illustrated; black leatherette; gilt spine titles; all pages edges gilt. Professional civil engineering text and field manual for railroad track and earth work, complete with detailed mathematical formulae. Bound together in a single volume with the exhaustive companion text, "Field And Office Tables Specifically Applicable To Railroads." Authored by C. Allen Frank, Professor of Railroad Engineering at M.I.T., who makes mention in the introduction of the added usefulness of railroad survey methods and calculations in the construction of automobile highways, then in their infancy. Very Good Plus, clean and bright, previous owner name in neat printed hand on front pastedown.

Quarterly Review Of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Gynecology, New York, 1959; 8vo, 6 pages. Publisher’s 1959 reprint of Sandor Rado’s theory of adaptational psychodynamics, with particular regard to dysfunctional sexual behavior in the female, which first appeared that year in the October-December issue of "Quarterly Review." Near Fine, in wraps.

Basic Books, NY, 1956; First Edition; 8vo, 150 pages. Four addresses by renowned psychoanalyst Ernest Jones dealing with the nature of genius and the impact of Freud upon the field of psychiatry. Published on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Freud’s birth. Fine, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears, repaired on the verso with japan paper. Clean, crisp, bright, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1936; First Edition, second impression; 8vo, 272 pages; blue cloth; gilt titles. Unedited diary of a young girl living in Germany at the turn of the century, from ages 11 through 14, first published in 1919. Preface by Sigmund Freud in which he cites the chronicle’s uniqueness in being able to so clearly show the inner workings of a young female during the years of puberal development. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Very Good, clean, crisp and sharp, in a Good dust jacket which has chipping along the upper edge of the front panel, a 2 3/4" clipped-out square in the blank area of the lower half of the front flap, and a 3/4" chip at the bottom of the spine panel. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.