Listen, Little Man! A Document from the Archive of the Orgone Institute

Wilhelm Reich; William Steig

New York

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Orgone Institute Press

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1948

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First Edition.

23cm x 16cm. 126 pages, black and white illustrations. Off-white cloth. red lettering and illustration, no jacket.

First edition in the English language of Reich’s antiauthoritarian classic calling for direct action by the working class. Translated by Theodore P. Wolfe. Illustrated by William Stieg. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austro-Hungraian-American doctor and psychoanalys, and is one of psychiatry’s most radical figures. In the late 1950s many of his books were burned by order of the court in one of the largest cases of modern censorship making early editions of his work scarce.

Soiling to cloth, ring stain to upper board, mottling to spine, minor marks to lower board. Minor rubbing to tail fore-edge corner. Very minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Previous owner’s signature. Two ink underlines to introduction, no other owner markings. A few minor soil marks to margins. 2cm closed tear to tail of page 33/4. Good Condition.