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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Third impression (1969). Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Unclipped jacket is marked; spine is a little tanned; minor shelfwear, and a few small nicks. Minor foxing in one small area of page block. Pages are clean and sound. TS. Used.

Boards in d.j. 1st Edition in English. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w frontis portrait plate of the author, b&w plates, pp 272. Faint discolouration to the upper board, otherwise clean. Very good condition in a near-fine, price-clipped dustjacket. Georg Walther Groddeck (1866 - 1934) was a German psychoanalyst, physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine. "The World of Man" includes an introduction to Groddeck's life and work and a translator's note. The translator states that the book is based on Groddeck's last completed work, 'Der Mensch als Symbol' [Man as Symbol], and is "a compilation of extracts arranged round about the material of 'Der Mensch als Symbol'.". Trans. V.M.E. Collins (illustrator). …