First edition of Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams", which 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'" (Printing and the Mind of Man). There were only 600 copies of the first edition printed and the book sold so slowly that the publisher did not issue a second edition until 1909. After its initial modest reception, Die Traumdeutung went on to exert an extraordinary influence on the culture of the twentieth century. Garrison-Morton 4980; Norman F33; PMM 389.