Theodore Wolfe Edited (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. Second Edition. 355 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2006931257.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing paperback: no additional printings identified. Wraps/paperback = Very Good Plus with some signs of use, rubbing and shelf wear, especially at extremities; a small, light sticker mark on front flap near price. Interior very clean & bright. DUE TO SIZE PRIORITY & INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING MAY BE HIGHER THAN ABE QUOTE; AMOUNT WILL REFLECT ACTUAL COST.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Volume I, Number 1 - Volume 3, Numbers 2 and 3 (two double issues). Five of the first seven issues (of only nine total issues) published, lacking Volume I, Number 3 and Volume 2, Number 1. Small quartos. Approximately 525 pages total. Each issue with the owner name and stamp of noted American psychologist Henry Guze, a cofounder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, on the front cover. Wrappers with moderate wear and soil, occasional shallow edge loss, crown of one volume neatly strengthened, and another with a 4½" closed tear on the rear cover (touching no edges), a sound, near very good set. The text has been nicely preserved. One issue with a renewal card and mailing envelope laid in. A run of this uncommon journal published by Wilhelm Reich's controversial Orgone Institute. The articles contributed by Reich are: "About the History and the Activities of Our Institute"; "The Orgasm Reflex. A Case History"; "Biophysical Functionalism and Mechanistic Natural Science"; "The Discovery of the Orgone"; "The Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy"; "The biological miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom"; "Work democracy versus politics"; Thermical and electroscopical orgonometry (The discovery of the orgone, Part 2)"; "The masochistic character"; "Orgonotic Pulsation"; and "The 'Living Productive Power, Working Power' of Karl Marx." Additional articles by Ernst Walter, Paul Martin, Theodore P. Wolfe, Walter Frank ("Vegetotherapy"), Mary Robert, Carl Arnold, Lucille Bellamy, and Dorothy I. Post, and Reviews and Notes by other contributors. The inaugural issue states that the journal would be published three times a year. However, it seems that, aside from the first year, it was published just twice annually, the second volume being a double issue. The journal ceased publication in November 1945 with Volume 4, Numbers 2/3, making the journal's entire run just nine issues.