R D Laing, Signed (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Signed. Inscribed by author, roberta Russell, on the title page, dated 1992! Book shows some shelf & handling wear, including minor edge wear & cover scuffing. Pages are somewhat worn, interiors are intact with unmarked text/pictures.

HARDCOVER. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 8vo in burgundy red faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 248pp, bibliography, index. This copy signed by Adrian Charles Laing on the title-page (no other marks or inscriptions) . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 63. Original publisher's maroon cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page, "To Rose, R. D. Laing." ISBN: 0718118227 Fine in very good dust jacket, with slight sunning at spine. Signedes.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 143. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Signed by the author on the front endpaper and dated 1976. ISBN: 0713910151 Fine in near fine dust jacket, with faint wear at the rear. Excellent condition. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed and Signed by R. D. Laing and Jutta Laing on the front end page to noted art historian Suzi Gablik as such: "For Suzi Gablik, from Ronnie and Jutta." Stated First Edition. The text is clean and bright. Short tear to the front panel of the jacket. Overall an attractive copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover with plastic spiral binding at left and right edges to hold 2 separate unpaginated page blocks split at center so each side can be flipped through separately; includes photo images of nude men and women sitting on a lips shaped couch; with poem and essay in English and Italian; as new condition; clean and crisp; signed by Maurizio Berlincioni and dated 1983 on title page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Fourth Printing. 138 pages; signed by author on front free endpaper. Minor fading on DJ. Minor yellowing on pages. Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings on text. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

First edition. Tall 4to. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover lettered in blind, pink endpapers, dust jacket. London, Tavistock Publications. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To my good friend Batts Xmas 1970 (Its great to be copied)' in black ink to the front free endpaper. Jacket price clipped with substantial wear and tears to the extremities, notwithstanding a good copy, internally clean.

Jenner Typed Letter Signed: Two pages, fol., fold marks, small closed tears on folds, ow good condition. He (and his team) would appreciate Laing's coming to dinner since they are starting to think about schizophrenia "in something like the way you have seen it for a long time [.] In particular we are in the middle of what might be called humanistic studies of a mere handful of to us extremely interesting 'schizophrenic' persons. I think a question which we would like to to put to you, if you felt you were able perhaps to come for dinner [.] is the disappointment we have in firstly, having very considerable understanding in our own minds of the patient, the power struggles and the conflicts involved etc. etc. and then finding that the patient's position can lead to violent acting out or quite inappropriate behaviour in our own view, which leads us to revert to physical treatments which are often very 'effective' in the sense that they quieten down the symptoms but hardly change the person in the way we would ourselves want in a meaningful way to do." He then discusses a case at length. R.D. Laing has made notes on the reverse of the second page as follows (some illegible to me; See image): First column: "You are reading this, at this moment. But who are you to me, the writer of the words you are reading"; Second column: "Western literature is a means of [communication?] [??] mind to mind heart to heart || 1. Flaubert | Salammbo | Cato || 2. Censorship| Candidness | Candide | Voltaire | 3. Ezra Pound | [?] Salammbo.".

New York: Pantheon Books. 1970. 8vo. Original black cloth with silver title lettering to spine; black and orange dust jacket with photograph of author to front wrapper; pp. [6], 90; fine. First US edition, signed and inscribed by Laing "To Michael and Anne/from Ronnie/March 1970".Continually testing the limits of orthodox psychiatry, in Knots R.D. Laing uses verse to explore themes dominant in his work since 1958 with a particular emphasis on the origins of mental disorder within the family and the instability of human connection.