Civilization Discontents by Sigmund Freud, First Edition (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. 8vo; mass mkt 99pp cover by leonard Baskin. (light shelfwear, toning to wraps). Size: Mass Market Paperback. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 6th Printing. Green covers with gold lettering ion very good shape, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. Some foxing on the inside front coeer and flyleaf. 6th printing.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You've had The Big Read, now here comes The Big Think.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good Minus. First American Edition. 109pp. Ninth printing. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. P8.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, 4th impression. This hardcover with dust jacket has light age-toning. Dust jacket is clean. Binding is tight. Covers clean. A few pages have underlining; most are unmarked. We ship FAST!.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pages in this paperback edition are clean without any marks or underlining but the vertical page edges have been written on with green magic marker. Binding is tight. Book cover has some soiling spots. Has a extensive index and bibliography in the back of the book.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Civilization and Its Discontents is Freud's essential statement of what the insights of psychoanalysis mean for society present and future. A bit age-toned. A clean copy with no writing or marks. First American edition specified, nineth printing. 5" - 7¾". book.

First American Edition of the translation. 8vo, publisher's original paper covers with photographic decoration in black and white, lettered in red and black on covers and spine. 109pp. A nice copy. Text block is fresh, lightly underlined and highlighted in yellow. "THE ONLY PAPERBOUND EDITION OF A VITAL DOCUMENT OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY THOUGHT." One of Freud's latest written works, he addresses the topic of understanding the microcosm of man within the macrocosm of the world, especially in relation to his environment, his society.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, eighth printing. Hardback. 144 pp. Very Good + condition No inscriptions.

Hardcover. First US Edition. Octavo; G; black spine with gilt text; first US edition; no jacket; cloth exterior shows only mild wear; good, intact binding; textblock edges have age toned slightly; two small blue marks to head edge; previous owner's information to ffep; minor inked numbers to ffep; light offsetting to endpapers; interior lightly toned; pp 109. 1365565. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st US Edition. clean text.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. College Edition printed on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black cl., lettering on backstr. dulled. Bookplate removed from ffep., paste remains. 109pp. incl. bibliography, indexes. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Nice copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Very good condition for its age. Binding is tight. Cover has some scuffing, edgewear, and corner bumping. Back cover has small stain. Spine has pushing and pulling. Text edges have some minor stains. Pages are yellowed from age, a few small stains throughout book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 144pp, hardback, green cloth gilt, ownership signature to ffep, published jointly by the Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, being The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 17, 8th impression.

Hardcover. Condition: VG orig. green cloth. 4th impression. 144 p.; 23 cm. [First English edition 1930].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 109pp. Stated "First American Edition 1962" on coopyright page. . Black cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. Black dustwrapper not price-clipped ($3.75) with white title lettering across middle front cover; spine brown, but sunned to lighter brown, with lettering still sharp and distinct; white tirangular peeling away of portion of upper spine, due to sticker removed: 3/4" by 1/4" (and less, downward toward triangle apex, away from triangle base, just below top of spine and covering the upper portions of the first three letters of 'FREUD" at top of spine); small wear at spine extremities and corners; 1/4" tear at top rear cover edge near center: describes worse than it is: now in mylar which well forgives sins. Book itslef is virtually As New. No previous owner names or other writing in text or on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black cloth boards, ruled edges, gilt stamped spine, 144 pages. Translated by Joan Riviere. Boards moderately soiled/rubbed, wrinkles to the cloth at the spine ends, spine sunned, black staining on the top edge bled silghtly onto the margins. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper, text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud; 1st edition, 3rd printing, October 1930. 144 pages. Translated by Joan Riviere. Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, 1930. includes newspaper obituary from 1939. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros. Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity. Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt. "cloth wear, spine top edge tear, some browning from enclosed newspaper articles, some pencil underlining".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Civilization and Its Discontents SIGMUND FREUD First US Ed Third Printing 1930 Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's black ruled cloth binding with faded titles on the spine. Black cloth is worn at all corners. Rear endpaper has a physician's blind stamp; name and address at the top. Otherwise, unmarked. No tears, or musty smells, no notes or underlining anywhere. Secure binding. Excellent addition to any library. Civilization and Its Discontents. Comprised of three essays that have been described as Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" after; "The Interpretation of Dreams". 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 1962. 109 pages with index. First American Edition stated, first printing. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Black cloth panels are bright and clean. Underneath DJ flap on rear pastedown are faint remnants of an erased name and address of a previous owner. Original DJ with $3.75 price intact on flap. DJ shows minor light rubbing along edges. A new translation by James Strachey; a British psychanalyst and foremost expert on the works of Sigmund Freud. Considered one of Freud's most important works; an uncommon first American edition, first printing in collectible condition. VG+/VG+.

Condition: Very Good +. First edition. FREUD, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents). Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Wien, 1930. Half-title + TP + [5]-136. Octavo. First Edition. One of Freud's most intensely studied and influential books, Civilization and Its Discontents, takes the foundational principles of psychoanalysis and applies them to man and his place in society. In this seminal book, Freud enumerates his understanding of the fundamental tensions that exist between civilization and the individual. The primary friction arises from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such commandments are broken. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent process of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens. This theory is based on the idea that humans have certain characteristic instincts that are immutable. Most notable are the desires for sex, and the predisposition to violent aggression towards authoritative figures and towards sexual competitors.CONDITION: An untrimmed copy in the original yellow publisher's printed wrappers. Some separation to rear wrapper with archival tape securing upper third. Ink name to front fly leaf. Internally clean and fresh. Very good in original wrappers. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good in wrappers. First Edition, German, 1930. An untrimmed copy in the original yellow publisher's printed wrappers. Spine carefully and unobtrusively repaired with tape; binding is about three quarters separated from covers. Chipping along the edges and a small piece missing from bottom of the spine closed tear at rear cover. A rare copy of a very important work.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first US printing. No dust jacket. Book has black covers. Previous owner's name written on inside of front cover. Some margin notes in pencil. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 144 pp, first edition, corners worn, marks to cloth Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [5], 6-136 pp. Yellow cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine; blue topstain. Text in German. Grinstein 10619. Haskell-Norman 1373. Freud's treatise on how the principles of psychoanalysis can be applied to industrialized societies. One of Freud's most significant works, a sharp examination of the demands of civilized society pitted humankind's innate desires and instincts. The Norman entry cites a special focus on the Eros instinct and on what the auction cataloger refers to as "the death instinct" Rubbing to the lettering on the front board, a bookplate on the free front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Near fine in a good dust jacket. First US Edition. First Published in America, 1930, stated on the copyright page. Previous owner's (Winthrop W. Aldrich) bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Aldrich was President and Chairman of the Board for Chase National Bank, and also U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. (1953-57). Rear free end paper has a small tear at middle. Dust Jacket has original price of $2.25 printed on the front flap. The front flap has separated from the front panel of the jacket, with some pieces missing; rear flap has tears along hinge; spine separated from rear hinge and horizontal closed tear at upper spine; chipping at the corners and spine ends; piece missing at bottom of spine. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth ruled in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with lengthy former owner gift inscription to front free endpaper and pages toned. In a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, with toning, light worming and light edge wear with a chip to the front flap fold. A lovely copy, scarce in the dust jacket.

First English edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 17. Portrait frontispiece after the photo by Max Halberstadt. 1 vols. 8vo. Freud's masterful meditation on the human condition, and one of his last works. No. 17 of The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by Ernest Jones. Freud's work occupied a central place in the history of the twentieth century and the way in which the western world came to view and understand itself. The dust jacket is uncommon. Woolmer 223 Original green cloth. Very good plus (some soiling to cloth), in very good dust jacket (toned, lacking a small portion at top of back panel) Portrait frontispiece after the photo by Max Halberstadt. 1 vols. 8vo First English edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 17.