8vo. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth (spine lightly sunned with a touch of rubbing at ends, hinges tender); folding case. Provenance: C. Grant Bain M.D. (ownership signature on front free endpapers).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, AMERICAN ISSUE with the integral title-page indicating priority over the second state (which included a cancel title from unbound sheets from the London issue once Macmillan ran out). 

"This is unquestionably Freud’s greatest single work. It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the ‘Oedipus complex,’ the libido and the rest; all related to the background of the ‘unconscious,’ later to be called the ‘sub-conscious'” (PMM). Garrison-Morton 4980; Norman F33; PMM 389 (all citing the original edition); Rieber & Gach 167 (this edition).