Theodor Reik, "The Compulsion to Confess: On the Psychoanalysis of Crime and of Punishment," Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First edition, first printing.
First printing of this book which takes from previously published writings of Reik.
Heavy wear to price-clipped jacket at spine ends and corners, with small tears and creases along edges. Now housed in Brodart cover. Book itself has some dust soiling at top page edges, has been read but remains in sound shape, text clean. Small old price sticker on front pastedown. Overall VG.
