Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
INSCRIBED BEERS, CLIFFORD WITTINGHAM. A Mind That Found Itself. 8vo, original cloth, rear hinge cracked. New York, 1910

Additional Details

Second edition of a work first published in 1908. After suffering abusive treatment as a patient in 3 Connecticut mental hospitals, Beers wrote this graphic account of his experiences to promote improved care for the mentally ill. Alexander & Selesnick, page 329; Norman 161. with a signed inscription from beers dated 1912 to Dr. Simon Baruch, surgeon and father of the financier Bernard Baruch.