Wertham Fredric M D (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Poor. Paperback cover has significant creases, small tears, dog-earing of corners and other wear. Many pages also dog-eared at lower corner. Pencil markings on front end paper/endorsements page. Binding of book block tight but attachment to cover does not inspire confidence. We are a Benedictine Abbey and Seminary library in Oregon. We appreciate your support.…

Hardcover. 279p., very goo first edition in cloth and heavily shelfworn, sunned and chipped dj. This psychiatric study of murder includes material on homosexuality.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. CLEAN COPY.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. BANTAM Books N3567; May 1967; New York, NY, USA; 1st Printing by Publisher; 206-Pages; Complete and Unabridged, with 8-Page New Introduction by Author. ** Banners at Top of Cover: 14 Slaughtered in Texas. 8 Nurses Slain in Chicago. 13 Women Strangled in Boston. A World-Famous Psychiatrist Tells Why People Kill. ** Goodreads: Preceded by the Original Hardcover edition Published in 1949; Psychiatrist, it contains a series of cases Wertham worked on determining the legal sanity of a number of accused murderers during the 1930's in New York. Each case is more ambiguous and difficult to decide than the last and Wertham is opinionated and intolerant of what he sees as the corrupt and ignorant lawyers and police around him. Wertham's style is solemn and thoughtful while being eminently readable and peppered with literary quotes and references to Kafka and Shakespeare among others. ** Chat: The Show of Violence is Wertham's deep dive into the psychology of violent crime. Long before Seduction of the Innocent made him infamous in comic-book circles, this book established him as a prominent forensic psychiatrist. * Case studies of real offenders; * Wertham examines several individuals who committed extreme acts of violence, exploring their childhoods, traumas, social environments, and mental states. * Violence as a social and psychological phenomenon; He argues that violent behavior rarely emerges from "evil" or innate criminality. Instead, it grows from a mix of neglect, abuse, poverty, and systemic failures. * Critique of institutions, Wertham is sharply critical of: prisons, psychiatric hospitals, the legal system, social services; He believed these institutions often produced violence rather than prevented it. * Humanizing the offender: A hallmark of Wertham's work: he insists that understanding violent individuals requires empathy and careful clinical observation, not moral condemnation>> Cover creasing & scuffing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Book. …

First Paperback Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good in good dust jacket. Book has slight rubbing of spine and edges of cover, discoloration of cover, aging of pages, dust jacket has slight rubbing of spine and edges of panels.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. ETON Books E106; 1951; New York, NY, USA; 1st Paperback Printing, 1st Edition; Complete and Unabridged; 221-Pages; ** Goodreads: Preceded by the Original Hardcover edition Published in 1949; Psychiatrist, it contains a series of cases Wertham worked on determining the legal sanity of a number of accused murderers during the 1930's in New York. Each case is more ambiguous and difficult to decide than the last and Wertham is opinionated and intolerant of what he sees as the corrupt and ignorant lawyers and police around him. Wertham's style is solemn and thoughtful while being eminently readable and peppered with literary quotes and references to Kafka and Shakespeare among others. ** Chat: The Show of Violence is Wertham's deep dive into the psychology of violent crime. Long before Seduction of the Innocent made him infamous in comic-book circles, this book established him as a prominent forensic psychiatrist. * Case studies of real offenders; * Wertham examines several individuals who committed extreme acts of violence, exploring their childhoods, traumas, social environments, and mental states. * Violence as a social and psychological phenomenon; He argues that violent behavior rarely emerges from "evil" or innate criminality. Instead, it grows from a mix of neglect, abuse, poverty, and systemic failures. * Critique of institutions, Wertham is sharply critical of: prisons, psychiatric hospitals, the legal system, social services; He believed these institutions often produced violence rather than prevented it. * Humanizing the offender: A hallmark of Wertham's work: he insists that understanding violent individuals requires empathy and careful clinical observation, not moral condemnation. ** Nice copy with some Lamination-Peel at upper and lower right cover corner Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth, lettered in burgundy. Foxing/spotting to portions of both covers, otherwise minor shelf wear. Firm binding, clean interior. Text block edges typically foxed/tanned. Matching dates but no statement of edition/ptg., thus an early ptg. but likely not a 1st. 279 pp. Pictorial dust jacket VG with mild sunning along spine panel, dampstaining along bottom rear edge, mild surface rubbing to rear panel, now in mylar. Early work by the now mostly-discredited psychologist whose later "Seduction of the Innocent" (1954) notoriously exposed the "evils" of reading comic books. Very scarce in DJ. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lt. blue cl., red design, sl. faded at edges w. v. sl. rubbing to corners. Backstr. red lettering, faded. 279pp. incl. index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Wertham is probably best remembered today as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose writing ("Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth") and testimony before Congress were largely responsible creation of the Comics Code Authority. Wertham claimed on sometimes inadequate evidence that violence in comics and other mass media were a major factor in crime and violence in American society. However, Wertham's focus was not limited to comics. In his early work, such as "The Show of Violence," which contains case histories of murderers Wertham dealt with in New York City as a forensic psychiatrist at Belleview and Queens County Hospitals, he more generally criticizes lawyers and psychiatrists, the media, and the criminal justice and mental health systems for failures that contribute to crime and violence in America. First Edition, early printing. 279 pages, including an index, in light blue cloth boards. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped; color faded at edges and on spine, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Sorry, no dustjacket. A very decent reading/study copy.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Bookplates (2). Very Good book in a Very Good dustjacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The book is very good+ with slight edge wear in a good dust jacket with edge wear, chipping at edges and corners, a half inch piece missing at lower spine end, a one inch piece missing at upper spine end and a two inch closed tear at upper rear flap fold.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good condition, dust jacket ripped, from a collector's inventory. Photos are of the actual book. Orders ship within 2 business days. Domestic standard shipping is via USPS Media Mail. Priority Mail upgrade available. Books are securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Delivery times are estimates provided by USPS and are not guaranteed. For the satisfaction of our customers, we DO NOT and WILL NEVER use OSM Worldwide or third-party mail consolidators.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards and dust jacket show signs of wear. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 279 pages. Black cloth covers with silver titling, corners very lightly bumped, light wear to head of spine, binding is tight, text is clean, VG+. Pink dust jacket with yellow and white lettering, light wear to corners, head of spine, spine is faded, VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Good. No dust jacket. No dust jacket. Has a couple stamps/stickers and a little wear to bottom of front cover hinge. Found minimal underlining on a few pages, but vast majority are unmarked. Great condition for its age.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacker shows minor signs of wear such as a small cut to the upper right corner of jacket and a small dampstain on the lower part of the spine. Jacket is protected by an archival cover. otherwise a clean, solid, unmarked copy in VG condition. See photos. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lower edge of boards with some white marking, VERY GOOD entirely free of any former owner marking. Dust wrapper with minor loss at spine ends, not price clipped. 32-pgs of illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. The World of Fanzines by Fredric Wertham, M.D. (First Edition) Minor bumping to bottom right corner. Bright, tight copy. 1/2" tear to bottom right back cover corner. Copyright 1973. "There are well over 200 fanzines in current distribution, originating in almost every state in the U.S. as well as in Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden. This is the first book about them. The history of the genre is brief, dating from the 1930s, but many of the publishers and contributors have achieved considerable distinction as writers, including Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, and Richard A. Lupoff." Dark gray boards with silver lettering and design; silver endpapers. 144 pp. BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: good. A former college library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket, as pictured. The pages appear unmarked. Light staining on cover. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. With the elusive Bibliographical Note pages in the rear; considerable rubbing to board edges, minor spine lean, light soiling/wear to pageblock edges, ownership information inked at top of title page, a few tiny holes in endpapers, missing left side of the two-page title spread so title page reads only OF THE INNOCENT plus other typical information, small chips/heavy cracking to jacket edges, mild overall soiling to dust jacket else a tight unmarked copy in price-clipped dust jacket in archival cover; first printing with Rinehart's circled "R" on copyright page; photos available ; 400 pages.…