On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers. Inscribed by Rogers. Houghton Mifflin Company. (1961). First printing with no statement of later printings. Inscribed "To Jake/ affectionately/ Carl R. Rogers/ 6/14/'68" on the title page. 6" x 8 1/2" xi, 420 pages Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light cover edgewear. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KH02a

"Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy. Rogers is widely considered one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956." - wikipedia.