Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild soiling. A ink line has been drawn through the flap price ($4.50), otherwise clean. Sontag's first book, a novel of ideas written at a time when Freud's theory of Dream Interpretation was considered the greatest of all. The protagonist Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his real world experiences. First Printing stated.