Freud and the Crises of Our Century
Boston: The Beacon Press, [1955]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. Item #409224
First edition. The book is dedicated "To Charles Warren Everett," former head of the English Department at Columbia University, where Trilling was a professor and its leading literary critic. This is the dedication copy, inscribed by Trilling : "Dear Charles - You know with how much affectionate friendship, and I hope you know with how much Admiration, this very little book and its dedication come to you. Yours always, Lionel.
Dec. 1955."
WITH: Another copy of the book, also fine, inscribed by Trilling on the front free endpaper: "Dear Hannah Moore - Our friend, C. W. E., has his own copy of this book. I think you ought to have your own copy - both because of your natural interest in him [Freud], and because you so kindly spoke to me of your having had a special feeling for the lecture when you heard it. Always yours, Lionel. Dec. 1955." Together, two copies.
Price: $650.00