Checklist of U.S. Printings of Freud’s Books before the Standard Edition

The publishing history of each of Freud’s books in the U.S. is summarized below until its first appearance in the Standard Edition, 1953-1967. British editions are included when they were bound from the same sheets as American ones or when they were sold directly to customers in the U.S. Bibliographic data is taken from Worldcat, ViaLibri, Grinstein’s 1956 Index of Psychoanalytic Writings, publishers’ archives, the Freud, Brill, and Jelliffe papers at the Library of Congress, contemporary periodicals and newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and other sources. Most of this data was not included in Bringing Freud to America. I’d be grateful the hear about errors, omissions and additions.

[1900] What Are Dreams? New York: Tucker Publishing Co., April 5, 1900. [1]-[16]. Paper wrappers. Front cover printed in reddish-brown art nouveau design. Only three copies are known to exist. Translates a long review consisting almost entirely of quotations and excerpts from the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, published a few weeks earlier in Vienna and Leipzig. Not included in the Standard Edition but online at Hathi Trust.

[1909] Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses.

  • First edition. New York: The Nervous & Mental Disease Publishing Co., Sept. 30, 1909. [2]+vi+200 pages. Plain paper wrappers, front cover printed like the title page.
  • Second edition. New York: Nervous & Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1912. x+215 pages.
  • Third edition. New York: Nervous & Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1920. vi+226 pages.
  • Fourth edition? In the Standard Edition, James Strachey cited another edition dated 1922 but WorldCat does not record it and I’ve been unable to locate a copy.
  • Fifth edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Early papers are included in Standard Edition vol. I 1966 and III 1962: https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono01freu/page/n9/mode/1up and https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono03freu/page/n9/mode/1up
  • Freud’s contributions to Studies in Hysteria are included in Standard Edition volume II (1955) https://archive.org/details/completepsycholo0002unse/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1910] Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory.

  • First Edition. New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1910 [Jan. 1911]. x+92 pages. Paper wrappers.
  • Second edition, first issue, Jan. 1916. “Second Enlarged and Revised Edition”. Title changed to Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. xi+117 pages.
  • Second edition, second issue, Dec. 1918. “Third Revised Edition” on title page. xii+117 pages. Contents as the preceding issue, despite the title.
  • Third edition, 1920. “Second Edition, Second Reprinting” on title page. xii+118 pages.
  • Fourth edition, April 1930. “Fourth Edition” on title page. xiv+104 pages. Adds a new introduction by Brill and a more detailed table of contents.
  • Fifth edition. Anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies.
  • Sixth edition. New York: Imago, 1952 (Strachey translation first published in London in 1949). Printed by Alcuin Press, Herts.
  • Standard Edition volume VII (1953) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono07freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1910] The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1909 Clark Lectures)

  • First edition. Printed in Lectures and Addresses Delivered Before the Departments of Psychology and Pedagogy in Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Opening of Clark University. September, 1909… Worcester, Mass., October 1910. Light blue paper wrappers printed like the title page. Verso of front cover and both sides of back cover are blank.
  • Second edition. Printed in Van Teslaar, James, ed. An Outline of Psychoanalysis. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. xx+384 pages. Imitation leather in brown, blue, or green. Spine stamped in gold; front cover is stamped in gold with Lucian Bernhart torch bearer logo. Dust jacket not seen. Endpapers printed in Bernhart diamond pane design. Since it was kept in print until 1954, the book is probably found in all the various Modern Library binding styles.
  • Third edition. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1949. A paperback issue of the text as included in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud, volume 54 of the Great Books of the Western World published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1952.
  • Fourth edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XI (1957) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono11freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1913] The Interpretation of Dreams.

  • First edition, first impression, first issue. London: George Allen and Co. Ltd., Feb. 1913. xii + 510 pages. 1,763 copies printed and bound during the book’s first year, 1,457 of which were sent to Macmillan in New York (5b1 below), 246 sold in London, and 60 distributed free.
  • first impression, second issue. New York: Macmillan, March 1913. First state: 1) A typographical error omits the word “confronted” on page 87; some copies had a small erratum slip pasted in opposite page 1. Second state: the error on page 87 has been corrected but otherwise the book appears identical to the first state.
    • second impression, May 1913. verso of the title page is blank and the printer’s attribution appears on page 510.
    • third impression, Nov. 1913. 590 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1914.
    • fourth impression, Dec. 1915. Mistakenly called “Fourth Edition” on the title page. 700 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1916.
    • fifth impression, Dec. 1916. 400 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1917 and 300 more during 1918.
    • sixth impression, May 1919. Printed by Turnbull & Spears. 750 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1919.
    • seventh impression, January 1920. 816 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1920.
    • eighth impression, January 1921. 600 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1921.
    • ninth impression, April 1922. Printed by Turnbull & Spears. 250 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1922.
    • tenth impression, February 1923. Printed by Turnbull & Spears. Bound in light brown cloth stamped in gold with “Macmillan” at the foot of the spine. WorldCat inaccurately calls this a “Rev. Ed.” 1,010 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1923, 250 in 1924, and 500 in 1925. No figures survive for 1926.
    • eleventh impression, February 1927. No figures survive for 1927-1929. 250 copies were sent to Macmillan during 1930
  • Second Edition. London, Allen & Unwin and and New York, Macmillan, 1932 [actually 1933]. [1]-600 pages. Often mistakenly called the “Third Edition” from the title of Freud’s foreword, this is, in fact, only the second setting of the text in type. Printed by Unwin Brothers Ltd, Woking. It contains a “Foreword to the Third English Edition [sic]” by Freud dated March 15, 1931. Reprinted at least five times through 1950.
  • Third edition, first issue. Truncated text anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies printed. Brill’s 1932 translation with virtually all of chapter 1 (Freud’s literature review) deleted.
  • Third edition, second issue. New York, Modern Library, 1950. vi+477 pages plus 8 pages of advertisements. Joseph Blumenthal binding in light-colored red, blue, green, or gray cloth with contrasting panel on spine and cover stamped in gold; Rockwell Kent torch bearer logo on front cover and Kent-designed endpapers. Dust jacket with black and white photo of Freud behind title and author on front, and white panel on spine printed with title. Published spring 1950 (listed in Publishers Weekly 25 March 1950). First printing 10,000 copies (Neavill Modern Library bibliography). Kept in print through 1985.
  • Third edition, third issue. New York, Carlton House, no date but 1950s. Printed from the same plates as the Modern Library 1950 issue but taller and with wider margins (22 cm vs. the 19 cm); blue cloth with gilt decorated spine.
  • Fourth edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Fifth edition, first issue. Basic Books 1955, ix-xxxii + 692 p
  • Fifth edition, second issue. John Wiley Science Editions 1961. Paperback.
  • Standard Edition volumes IV and V (1953) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono04freu/page/n9/mode/1up  and https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono05freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1914] On Dreams

  • First edition, first issue. London: Heinemann-Rebman, May 1914. xxxii+110 pages. On page 110 beneath a ruled line reads, “WOODS & SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, LONDON, N.” Reprinted in London in 1919 and 1924.
  • First edition, second issue, first state. New York: Rebman Company, July 1914. xxxii+110 pages. Light gray cloth printed in black on spine, reading head to foot. The printer is acknowledged at the foot of page 110 as Woods and Sons London. Reprinted August 1914.
  • First edition, second issue, second state. New York: Rebman, August 1914. xxxii+110 pages. The title page includes a line at the foot giving the publisher’s address as “Herald Square Building” above the street address. The verso of the title page reads “All Rights Reserved” at center and “Printed in Great Britain” at lower left. The printer is acknowledged at the foot of page 110 as Woods and Sons London beneath a ruled line.
  • First edition, third issue. New York: Rebman, 1915. xxxii+110 pages. The printer is acknowledged at the foot of page 110 as, “BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD”.
  • Second edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1952. 122 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket (binding not seen). Appeared the next year in vol. 5 of the Standard Edition. Many later reprints in paperback.
  • Standard Edition volume V (1953) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono05freu/page/n9/mode/1up

[1914] Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

  • First edition, first impression, first issue. London: T. Fisher Unwin, June 3, 1914. viii+342 pages.
  • First edition, first impression, second issue. New York: Macmillan, late August 1914. Bluish-gray cloth printed in gold on spine.
    • second impression 1915.
    • third impression 1916.
    • fourth impression 1917.
    • fifth impression 1917.
    • sixth impression 1920.
    • seventh impression 1920.
    • eighth impression 1921.
    • ninth impression 1922.
    • tenth impression 1922.
    • eleventh impression 1923.
    • twelfth impression 1924.
    • thirteenth impression 1926.
    • fourteenth impression 1928 (some sent to Macmillan bound in red).
    • fifteenth impression 1930 (some sent to Macmillan bound in gray).
    • sixteenth impression 1935 (Ernest Benn on title page of London issue).
  • Second Edition. Anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies printed.
  • Third edition. Pelican Books, 1938. Paperback. v+218 pages. Reprinted 1938.
  • Standard Edition volume VI (1960) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono06freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1915] Modern Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness.

  • First edition. New York: Critic and Guide Co., Oct. 1915. [1]-[16] pages. Self-titled in paper wrappers. Only one copy is recorded (Library of Congress).
  • Second edition, first issue. New York: Critic & Guide, 1923. [1]-42+6 pages of advertisements. Only one copy is known (Drew University).
  • Second edition, second issue. New York: Cosmopolis Press, 1923. [1]-42+6 pages of advertisements. Cosmopolis Press labels are pasted over the original Critic & Guide imprint on the title page, cover, and advertisements. Not in WorldCat. One copy in private hands.
  • Third edition, first issue. New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., 1931. [iii]-48+1 leaf of advertisements. Usually found in stiff, off-white self-wrappers; some copies were issued in black paper-covered boards with printed label on cover.
  • Third edition, second issue. New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., 1938. [iii]-48+2 leaves of advertisements. Light blue paper-covered boards printed in black.
  • Contains significant edits and omissions by publisher William Robinson.
  • Standard Edition volume IX (1959) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono0009freu_j3r9/page/n7/mode/1up 

[1916] Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious.

  • First edition, first (trade) issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., Sept. 30, 1916. x+388 pages. Reprinted November 1917. Gray cloth stamped in gold on the spine.
  • First edition, second issue. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Dec. 1916. x+388 pages.
  • First edition, third (subscription) issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. “Library of Modern Thought” series, Sept. 1917. x+388 pages. Red cloth stamped in gold on spine.
  • First edition, fourth issue. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922?. x+388 pages. Bright blue cloth stamped in gold. Verso of title page includes: “Reprinted (by arrangement with / Messrs Moffat, Yard & Co. of New York) / from the American Edition.”
  • First edition, fifth issue. New York: Dodd Mead, [1932?]. vii+388 pages. Orange cloth with printed spine label.
  • Second edition. Anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies printed.
  • Standard Edition volume VIII (1960) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono08freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1916] Leonardo da Vinci, A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence.

  • First edition, first issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., Sept. 30, 1916. vi+130 pages. Dark green cloth printed in gold.
  • First edition, second issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1921? vi+130 pages. Light brown cloth with spine printed in dark brown. Pagination and text are the same as the first issue but there’s no date at the foot of the title page, the title page verso is blank, and the foot of p. 130 reads: THE END / [rule] / PRINTED IN GERMANY BY OTTO ELSNER, BERLIN .
  • First edition, third issue. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. xii+130 pages. Blue cloth with spine printed in gold. Page [vii] contains a publisher’s note dated January 1922. At foot of p. 130: THE END / [RULE] / PRINTED IN GERMANY BY OTTO ELSNER, BERLIN .
  • First edition, fourth issue. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd.,1932. xii+130 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Reprinted 1934.
  • First edition, fifth issue. New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1932. viii+130 pages. Binding not seen.
  • Second edition, first issue. New York: Basic Book Club, 1947. [6]+3-121+[3] pages. Blue cloth with black panels. 500 copies printed. “First Printing” on verso of title page. The first version to contain a long introduction by A.A. Brill.
  • Second edition, second issue. New York: Random House, 1947. [6]+3-121+[3] pages. Burgundy cloth with black panels. Also contains Brill’s long introduction.
  • Third edition, first issue. New York: Modern Library Paperback P11, fall 1955. xxxviii+121 pages. Also contains Brill’s long introduction.
  • Third edition, second issue. New York: Vintage Books (paperback), 1961. Reprinted several times. Also contains Brill’s long introduction.
  • Standard Edition volume XI (1957) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono11freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1917] Delusion and Dream: An Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva, a Novel.

  • First edition, first issue. New York: Moffat Yard & Co., Sept. 22, 1917. viii+244 pages. Blue cloth with spine printed in gold.
  • First edition, second issue. New York: Moffat Yard & Co., Sept. 1917. First issue sheets bound for the Library of Modern Thought. Red cloth stamped in gold
  • Second edition, first issue. London: Allen & Unwin, 1921. 1-214 pages. Red cloth with spine printed in gold. Dust wrapper grey paper printed in black (no illustrations). At foot of 213: Printed in Great Britain by / UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON ; [blank leaves].
  • Second edition, second issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1922. 1-216 pages. Half-title with Allen & Unwin’s Ruskin House logo; title page dated 1922; at foot of p. 213: Printed in Great Britain by / UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON ; [214-216] advertisements for Allen & Unwin titles.
  • Third edition. New York: New Republic, 1927. xii+256 pages. Paper wrappers with yapped edges, printed in dark green and dark brown. Price $1.00 on spine. Bound in sewn gatherings; pages uncut. Page [vi] includes: “Copyright, 1917, / BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, INC. / PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY/ QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC. / [etc.]”. 2,000 copies printed.
  • Fourth edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1956. 238 pages. Paperback. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Rieff.
  • Standard Edition volume IX (1959) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono0009freu_j3r9/page/n7/mode/1up 
  • Note: In 1939, the Overbrook Press received permission from Dodd Mead to bring out a limited edition of 175 copies illustrated by Salvador Dali. I have been unable to trace any evidence in OCLC WorldCat or finding aids to the Overbrook Press records at Columbia and Yale that this was ever printed, nor has any copy been seen.

[1917] History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement.

  • First edition. New York: Nervous & Mental Disease Pub. Co., February 1917. iv+58 pages. Earliest copies were issued in brown paper over boards with the front cover printed like the title page, but dated at the foot 1916; the inside front cover and both sides of the back cover contain advertisements for the monograph series; six pages of advertisements are at the end. Some later copies were issued in paper wrappers printed like the title page but dated 1917 at the foot. Copyright entered February 15, 1917. Not reprinted separately.
  • Second edition. Anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies printed.
  • Third edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XIV (1957) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono0014freu_p2d4/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1918] Reflections on War and Death.

  • First edition. New York: Moffat, Yard, April 13, 1918. vii+72 pages. Red cloth printed in white on spine and front cover.
  • Second edition. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1922. viii+71 pages. Red cloth printed in white with the single-word title, Reflections. Light blue dust jacket printed in black. 500 copies printed. Entirely reset, with slightly different text on each page and text ending on p. 71 rather than on p. 72 as in the first edition.
  • Third edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XIV (1957) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono0014freu_p2d4/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1918] Totem and Taboo, Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.

  • First edition, first issue. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., May 1918, xii+266 pages. Blue cloth printed in gold. Reprinted June 1919 bound in gray cloth printed in black on spine.
  • First edition, second issue. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1919. xii+268 pages. Brown cloth printed in gold on spine; “Kegan Paul” at foot of spine. At foot of 268: Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London. Routledge acquired Kegan Paul in 1912 as a separate imprint, hence the discrepancy between the spine and the title page.
  • Second edition. New York: New Republic, 1927. xviii + 282 pages. Paper covers printed in black. 2,000 copies printed, some of which were re-issued in a similar binding in 1931.
  • Third edition. London: Penguin, 1938. [1]-246. Paperback; blue and white Pelican issued with a stiff paper wrapper.
  • Third edition. Anthologized in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies printed.
  • Fourth edition, first issue. New York: Random House, 1946. xiv+207 pages. Modern Library paperback P-67.
  • Fourth edition, second issue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Vintage Books paperback V124. 207 pages.
  • Fifth edition. W. W. Norton 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XIII (1955) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono13freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1920] A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.

  • First edition. New York: Boni & Liveright, June 30, 1920. x+406 pages. Dark blue cloth printed in gold on spine and front cover. Light blue paper dust jacket printed in black. Translated by Cora Senner and Susan Hoch Kubie under the direction of Edward Bernays.
    • First impression, June 1920.
    • Second impression, June 1920. 2,200 copies total printed during June.
    • Third impression, August 1920. 2000 copies printed in Jul.y
    • Fourth impression, September 1920.
    • Fifth impression, November 1920.
    • Sixth impression, January 1921.
    • Seventh impression, April 1921.
    • Eighth impression, September 1921.
    • Ninth impression, November 1921.
    • Tenth impression, April 1922.
    • Eleventh impression, September 1922.
    • Twelfth impression, November 1929.
    • Thirteenth impression, June 1924.
    • Fourteenth impression, February 1925.
    • Fifteenth impression, ca. 1928-1932, lists publisher as “Horace Liveright Inc.” at the foot of the title page but prints only the date 1920 on its verso.
  • Second edition, first issue. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1935. [1]-412 pages. Translated by Joan Riviere, with an introductory note by Freud and prefaces by G. Stanley Hall and Ernest Jones. Black cloth with ornately gilt spine; title and author stamped in gold against a bright blue panel at top of spine and on front cover.
  • Second edition, second issue. New York: Garden City Publishing Co. “DeLuxe Edition,” Feb. 1938 Gray cloth with a red spine panel in a red and black dust jacket. When this issue was reprinted in 1948 Publishers Weekly reported that “about 162,000 copies of the Freud have been sold.”
  • Second edition, third issue. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1943. Blue or beige cloth printed in black on spine with same dust jacket as preceding.
  • Second edition, fourth issue. New York: “Liveright’s Black and Gold Library,” 1946. Black cloth with ornate gold spine.
  • Third edition, first issue. New York: Permabooks (a brand of Garden City Publishing Co.), Oct. 1949. 480 pages. “The books will have sewn pages, stained tops, colored end sheets, and three-color laminated covers, paper over boards” (Publishers Weekly, July 24, 1948). Reprinted seven times 1951-1958 as a conventional paperback after the plastic-coated hardcovers were abandoned in 1951.
  • Third edition, second issue. New York: Washington Square Press, 1960-1963. 480 pages. Paperback.
  • Fourth edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volumes XV and XVI (1963) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono15freu/page/n9/mode/1up  and https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono16freu/page/n7/mode/1up 

[1920] Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners.

  • First edition, first issue. New York: James A. McCann Co., late 1920. xiv+238 pages. Binding not seen. Rare; no copies are listed in OCLC WorldCat and only one copy has been digitized (from the Univ. of California Davis, at Hathi Trust).
  • First edition, second issue. New York: James A. McCann Co., Feb. 1921. Identical to the preceding except dated 1921 on the title page, where the lines crediting the translation to Eder are omitted, the list of Tridon’s works are expanded to include Easy Lesson[sic] in Psychoanalysis, and the company logo appears. The verso of the title page reads: Copyright Introduction, 1921, by / THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY / [at foot, without rule beneath:] PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
  • Note: This was a blatant piracy that reprinted about 77 pages from M.D. Eder’s translation of On Dreams and 160 pages from A.A. Brill’s translation of The Interpretation of Dreams without informing or compensating Eder, Brill, or Freud. For Standard Edition texts, see those titles above.

[1922] Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.

  • First edition, first issue. London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. Green cloth printed in gold on cover and spine; light green dust jacket heavily printed with text. No publisher’s name appears at foot of spine, only a single rule. Printed by K. Liebel in Vienna. Starting in 1924, sheets were bound up and distributed by the Hogarth Press, whose name appears on the bindings and dust jackets. New impressions with title pages including the name of the Hogarth Press were published in 1940, 1945, 1948, 1949.
  • First edition, second issue. New York: Boni and Liveright, Sept. 1924. viii+136 pages. Gray cloth printed in gold on spine. Dust jacket off-white paper heavily printed with text, including a series title “Researches in Human Herd Instincts” and price of $2.00 on cover. No date is printed anywhere on the book. 2,000 sets of the 1922 sheets were imported from Vienna and given a new title page. New impressions were issued in 1940, 1949 and 1951.
  • Second edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XVIII (1955) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono18freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1922] Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

  • First edition, first issue. London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. 92 pages. Green cloth with spine and upper cover printed in gold. Verso of title page says, COPYRIGHT 1922. The printer, Society for Graphic Industry or Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie, had printed the original German edition in 1921. Beginning in 1924 it was distributed by the Hogarth Press, who bound up the sheets as needed and identified themselves on the bindings and dust jackets though not on the title page. New impressions with title pages including the name of the Hogarth Press were published in 1942 and 1948.
  • First edition, second issue. New York: Boni & Liveright, Sept. 1924. 92 pages. Gray cloth with spine printed in gold. 2,000 sets of the 1922 sheets were imported from Vienna and given a new title page. No date is printed anywhere on the book.
  • Second edition, first issue. London: Hogarth Press, 1950. 97 pages.
  • Second edition, second issue. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1950. 97 pages.
  • Third edition. Anthologized in The Major Works of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952.
  • Standard Edition volume XVIII (1955) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono18freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[Less detail is provided on the works below, which were issued after Freud’s American reputation was well-established]

[1924] Collected Papers

  • 1924-25 Vols 1-4 London, Hogarth Press; vol 5, 1950.
  • 1959 Vols 1-5 New York, Basic Books. First U.S. edition
  • 1963 New York, Collier. 10-volume paperback edition with introductions by Philip Rieff “published by arrangement with Basic Books Inc.” Contents of the preceding sets rearranged thematically.

Details:

  • vol. 1 Early Papers. Hogarth Press 1924. printed in Leipzig; 1940, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956
  • vol. 1 Early Papers. International Psycho-Analytic Press, New York, 3rd edition, 1946
  • vol. 1 Early Papers. New York, Basic Books, 1959.
  • vol. 2 Clinical Papers, Papers on Technique. Hogarth Press 1924, at least 6 impressions in 1924; 1942, 1946, 1948, 1949, seventh printing 1950, 1952, 1953, 1956
  • New York, Basic Books, 1959.
  • vol. 3 Case Histories. Hogarth Press 1925, 1933, 1935, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956
  • New York, Basic Books, 1959.
  • vol. 4 Papers on Metapsychology and on Applied Psychoanalysis. Hogarth Press 1925, 1934, 1948, fifth impression 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956
  • New York, Basic Books, 1959.
  • vol. 5 Hogarth Press 1950, 1952, 1953, 1956
  • New York, Basic Books, 1959.

[1925] The Sexual Enlightenment of Children

[1927] The Ego and the Id

[1927] Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. 

  • The Psychoanalytic Institute, Stamford, Conn., 1927. Translated by L. Pierce Clark as Inhibition [singular], Symptoms, and Anxiety. First English-language edition. Preface by Ferenczi. Only one copy in WorldCat; only 18 libraries worldwide own the series of which it was a part.
  • Hogarth Press, first impression, 1936, 1948, 1949, and after
  • Standard Edition volume XX (1959) https://archive.org/details/autobiographical0020sigm/page/n7/mode/2up 

[1927] The Problem of Lay Analyses / An Autobiographical Study. 

  • Brentanos (NY), 1927.
  • Brentanos (London), 1928.
  • Imago, London, 1947 as The Question of Lay Analysis… translated by Nancy Procter-Gregg, with foreword by Ernest Jones.
  • W.W. Norton 1950 as The Question of Lay Analysis, Paperback, 1969, “with Freud’s 1927 Postscript.”
  • Anchor Books, 1964. Paperback.
  • Both titles are in Standard Edition volume XX (1959) https://archive.org/details/autobiographical0020sigm/page/n7/mode/2up 
  • See also 1935, below.

[1928] The Future of an Illusion. 

[1932] The Acquisition of Power Over Fire

  • National Emergency Training Center], [Emmitsburg, MD], 1932

[1930] Civilization and Its Discontents. 

  • New York.: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith., 1930. First American edition
  • Hogarth Press 1930, second impression 1939, third impression 1946, fourth impression 1949, fifth impression 1951, sixth printing 1953, 7th printing 1955; 8th printing 1957; Standard (second) Edition, 1953.
  • University of Chicago Bookstore, 1932. Paperback. Printed for students in the course Social Sciences 2 by special arrangement with the Hogarth Press. Only one copy is recorded in OCLC WorldCat.
  • W. W. Norton 1950 paperback, reprinted 1961, 1962
  • Doubleday Anchor paperback, 1958 cover by Leonard Baskin
  • Doubleday Anchor paperback, 1958 cover by Edward Gorey
  • Doubleday Anchor paperback, 1961
  • Great Books Foundation. Chicago, 1961, bound with Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground; gold paper covers.
  • Standard Edition volume XXI (1961) https://archive.org/details/standardeditiono21freu/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1933] New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. 

  • W. W. Norton 1933, 1938, 1940s (acidic wartime paper)
  • Carlton House, [no date. 1933? Probably 1950s
  • Hogarth Press 1933, third impression 1936, fourth impression 1949, 1957, sixth impression 1962, 1964.
  • Princeton University Press, 1946
  • Liveright, 1949
  • Norton 1961 paperback, reprinted 1964
  • Standard Edition volume XXII (1964) https://archive.org/details/newintroductoryl0000sigm/page/n9/mode/1up 

[1935] An Autobiographical Study. 

[1936] The Problem of Anxiety. 

[1936] Studies on Hysteria (with Josef Breuer). 

[1937] A General Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. by John Rickman. 

  • Hogarth Press 1937; 1938; 1953 third impression; 
  • Anchor Doubleday 1957 reprint in paperback.
  • Liveright 1957
  • Contents are scattered through the Standard Edition. Online at Internet Archive.

[1938] The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud (1938).

  • First edition, first issue. New York: Modern Library, May 1938. 10,000 copies were printed. Dark gray cloth with red panels on spine stamped in gold and Rockwell Kent publisher’s logo on front cover in gold. Plain endpapers; top of page block stained red; pictorial dust jacket printed in red, gray, white, and black. First Modern Library Edition stated on verso of title page.
  • Later impressions are found in all the various Modern Library binding styles. According to G.B. Neavill’s PhD dissertation (pages, 206-208, citing correspondence in the Random House Archives at Columbia University), “The first printing of 10,000 copies was issued in April and sold out in less than two weeks. By the end of June, sales had passed 16,000 copies… During its first five years in the series, annual sales averaged 18,693 copies. Sales from 1943 to 1948 averaged 16,268 copies a year; for the next five years annual sales averaged 11,858 copies; and for the five years after that, annual sales· averaged 11,188 copies. By 1964, sales of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud reached 345,664 copies.”
  • Brill told Freud that he had retranslated most of the works specifically for this anthology. Some contain silent omissions and The Interpretation of Dreams is significantly truncated here.
  • Contains the following previously published books:
    • Psychopathology of Everyday Life
    • The Interpretation of Dreams
    • Three Contributions of the Theory of Sex
    • Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
    • Totem and Taboo
    • The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
  • Contents are scattered through the Standard Edition. Online at Internet Archive.

[1939] Moses and Monotheism. 

  • Hogarth Press 1939; 2nd ed, 1940; 3rd impression 1951;
  • Alfred A. Knopf, 1939; second printing 1947
  • Vintage V-14 1955 paperback; reprinted 1957, 1958, 1961, 1967
  • Viking hardcover issue of 1955 Vintage paperback
  • Knopf Doubleday 1955 paperback
  • Standard Edition volume XXIII (1964) https://archive.org/details/completepsycholo0023unse/page/n8/mode/1up 

[1939] Civilization, War and Death. Ed. by John Rickman. 

  • Hogarth Press 1939; second “new enlarged edition” 1953 ; 1964
  • 1939 edition spells ‘Civilization’ with a Z; 1953, with an S.
  • Contents are scattered through the Standard Edition.

[1940] An Outline of Psychoanalysis. 

[1941] The Living Thoughts of Freud.

  • Edited by R. Waelder. Toronto & New York, Longmans, Green 1941. Unauthorized.

[1947] Freud: On War, Sex and Neurosis.

  • Arts & Science Press, 1947

[1952] The Case of Dora and Other Papers.

  • W. W. Norton 1952.

[1952] The Major Works of Sigmund Freud (1952).

  • First edition. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World, 1952. vi+884 pages. Sold 35-50,000 copies per year through subscriptions, totaling ca. 700,000 copies by 1969.
  • Contents:
    • “The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis” (1910), translated by Harry W. Chase
    • Selected Papers on Hysteria (chapters 1-10) (1893-1908), translated by A.A. Brill
    • “The Sexual Enlightenment of Children” (1907), ranslated by E.B.M. Herford
    • “The Future Prospects of Psycho-analytic Therapy” (1910), translated by Joan Riviere
    • “Observations on ‘Wild’ Psycho-analysis” (1910), translated by Joan Riviere
    • The interpretation of Dreams (1900), translated by A.A. Brill
    • “On Narcissism” (1914), translated by Cecil M. Baines
    • “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes” (1915), translated by Cecil M. Baines
    • “Repression” (1915) , translated by Cecil M. Baines
    • “The Unconscious “(1915), translated by Cecil M. Baines
    • A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (1915-17), translated by Joan Riviere
    • Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), translated by C.J.M. Hubback
    • Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921), translated by James Strachey
    • The Ego and the Id (1923, translated by Joan Riviere
    • Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety (1926), translated by Alix Strachey
    • Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1915), translated by E. Colburn Mayne
    • Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), translated by Joan Riviere
    • New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1932), translated by W.J.H. Sprott
  • Contents are scattered through the Standard Edition.

[1953] On Aphasia, a Critical Study.

  • International Universities Press, 1953.

[1954] The Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes: 1887-1902.

  • Basic Books,1954.

[1958] Dreams in Folklore

  • International Universities Press, 1958. “This small book is a previously unpublished paper by Freud and David Ernst Oppenheim. … The manuscript of a paper to which [Oppenheim] contributed the folklore and Freud the commentary…”

[1966] Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study, with William C. Bullitt. 

  • Houghton Mifflin 1966, 1967
  • Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. 
  • Avon, 1968 hardcover and paperback
  • Not included in the Standard Edition

[1966] Complete Introductory Lectures. 

  • Norton, 1966. 
  • R.S. Means Company, 1966
  • Not included in the Standard Edition

Freud’s Contributions to Works by Other Authors before 1925

Pfister, Oskar. The Psychoanalytic Method. New York: Moffatt & Yard, 1917. xx+588 pages. Published in late January 1917. Blue cloth with spine printed in gold. Freud’s introduction is on pages v-viii, dated February 1913.

Putnam, James Jackson. Addresses on Psychoanalysis, with a Preface by Sigmund Freud. London and New York: International Psycho-Analytical Press, July 1921. x+470 pages. Green cloth printed in gold on spine and front cover. International Psycho-analytical Library, no. 1. Freud’s preface on pages iii-v is dated January 1921.

Varendonck, Julien. The Psychology of Day-Dreams. London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. 368 pages. Black cloth printed in gold on spine, with gold ruled border on front cover. Freud’s introduction is on pages 9-10.

A Young Girl’s Diary, with a Preface by Sigmund Freud. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. 285 pages. Boards covered in green cloth, spine in off-white cloth with printed paper label. Preface contains Freud’s 2-page letter dated April 27, 1915.

Ferenczi, Sandor et. al. Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses by Drs. S. Ferenczi (Budapest), Karl Abraham (Berlin), Ernst Simmel (Berlin) and Ernest Jones (London). Introduction By Prof. Sigm. Freud. (Vienna). London, Vienna, and New York: The International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1921. vi+59 pages. Green cloth printed in gold on spine and front cover. International Psycho-Analytical Library, no. 2. Freud’s introduction is on pages 1-4. Papers given at the Fifth International Psycho-Analytical Congress at Budapest, Sept. 1918, supplemented with a paper by Jones.

These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. London and New York: Encyclopedia Britannica Company Limited, 1924. Two volumes. Black cloth printed in gold with pictorial dust jackets; 1,500 copies were specially bound in dark olive leather with ornate floral design on front covers. Vol. II (xii+695 pages) contains Freud’s essay, “Psycho-Analysis: Exploring the Hidden Recesses of the Mind” on pages 511-523.

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