Family Planning in Ceylon
Colombo: [Colombo Apothecaries' Co. Ltd.], 1968. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original buckram in grey decorative dust jacket; vi,188pp.; a few folding table plates. Minor shelf wear, else Very Good or better. More
Contraception & Birth Control
The Survey Under Unusual Conditions: The Jamaica Human Fertility Investigation
[Ithaca, NY]: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 28cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 52pp.; text printed in double columns. Wrapper extremities and textblock a bit toned, old pencil price to upper wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as the Society's Monograph no. 1. More
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It's All Right Doc, I'm Only Dying [drop title]
Seattle: Radical Women, n.d., ca. 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner. Fine. Personal essay by an "ADC welfare mother" getting sterilized: "it damn near killed me." OCLC locates 7 copies as of Sept.2019 (UC Davis, Duke, UVA, Central Connecticut, Wisconsin Hist. Soc., U.Waterloo..... More
Counseling on Family Planning & Human Sexuality
New York: Family Service Association of America, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pinkish-red decorative dust jacket; xv,[1],216pp. Some wear along top jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Passionate Paradox: The Life of Marie Stopes
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1962]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in grey-black decorative dust jacket; 285pp.; 4 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Jacket extremities chipped and worn, corners slightly bumped else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Biography of the British women's and..... More
Marie Stopes: A Biography
London: Hogarth Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original boards in pale green decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 285pp. Jacket spine a bit faded, corners lightly bumped, top textblock edge a bit foxed, else Very Good or better. Biography of the British women's and reproductive rights activist. More
Abortion in a Crowded World. The problem of abortion with special reference to India
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974. First American Edition. From British sheets. Octavo; cloth boards, dustjacket; 184pp. Fine in dustwrapper. More
Survey of Fertility and Mortality in Poona District
[Poona]: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); black library cloth-backed boards, original wrappers and integral dust jacket bound in; [2],xii,191pp.; tables and graphs throughout. Ex-Princeton Library with their markings throughout (bookplate inside upper cover with "Withdrawn" rubberstamp). A Very Good, sound reading copy. More
Abortion and the Law
[London]: MacGibbon & Kee, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. A hint of dust-soil to jacket, else Very Good or better. History of the law of abortion in Great Britain. More
The Nameless: Abortion in Britain Today
London: Hutchinson, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 172pp. Minor shelf wear, corners rather bumped, else Very Good or better. More
El Aborto: Derecho Fundamental de la Mujer
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1988. Second edition. 12mo; staple-bound printed wrappers; 46pp. Very Good, unmarked copy. Spanish-language edition of "Abortion is a Woman's Right!" (1985). More
Babies by Choice or by Chance. A Practical Survey of Contraception, Infertility, Sterilization, Abortion, Artificial Insemination, etc. etc.
London: Gollancz, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 191pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn and soiled dustwrapper, Very Good. Survey of legal and ethical problems of women's reproductive rights in both Great Britain and North America. More
Abortion
[Palo Alto? Society for Humane Abortion, 1964?]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 5pp. About Fine. "A sermon in the series 'Life and Death Questions,' preached at Palo Alto Unitarian Church, Palo Alto, California, April 19, 1964." Published in this edition by the Society, founded by..... More
The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh
New York: Horizon Press, 1976. First American Edition. Full account of the April, 1877 trial of Annie Besant, the estranged wife of a clergyman who accused of publishing "obscene libel" in the form of a pamphlet advocating family planning and describing current methods of contraception in detail. It also describes..... More
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The Law Giveth: Legal Aspects of the Abortion Controversy [Inscribed & Signed]
New York: Atheneum, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket, yellow topstain; xii,[2],363pp. Just a hint of shelf wear, tiny puncture to upper jacket panel, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "11/1/83 To Connie, It's so nice to have a...... More
Esoteric Anthropology: A comprehensive and Confidential Treatise on the Structure, Functions, Passional Attractions, and Perversions, True and False, Physical and Social Conditions, and the Most Intimate Relations of Men and Women
New York: Published by the Author, at the Reform Book Store, 1854. Reprint. Oft-reprinted early feminist free-love anatomical treatise, adopting Fourierist principles to a body's well-being. The author goes on to argue, rather unusually, that women should be given the choice of childbearing and could not only experience sexual enjoyment..... More
Abortion Laws: The Cruel Fraud
San Francisco: Society for Humane Abortion, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pink self-wrappers, disbound as issued; 6pp. Faint toning to spine edge, else Fine. Address originally delivered at the California Conference on Abortion in Santa Barbara, February 10, 1968. The previous year Phelan and other members of the Society..... More
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The Women's Health Movement: Feminist Alternatives to Birth Control [Review Copy]
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's brown leatherette lettered in gilt; xviii,[2],351pp. Boards a bit rubbed, a couple leaves dog-eared, else Very Good and sound. Review copy with slip laid in. More
The Indian Investment in Family Planning
[New York]: Population Council, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); original grey-green printed card wrappers; xviii,213pp. About Fine. "Occasional Paper of The Population Council." More
Vote Socialist Workers in '70 - Stop Killing Our Sisters - Fight the oppression of women
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1970. Mimeographed broadside, 11" x 8-1/2; printed in black on yellow stock. Printing uneven at right margin, else Fine. Announces the SWP's involvement in the campaign to repeal abortion laws; bottom margin is a donation blank (unused). More
Birth Control and Public Policy
[Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1960]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.25cm.); original card wrappers; 83pp. Slightly ex-library with card pocket inside rear cover, no other markings; wrapper extremities rather toned and a bit rubbed, else About Very Good overall. More
The Cornell Conference on Women, January 22-25, 1969. Proceedings
Pittsburgh: Know, 1969. First Edition. Panel proceedings published for the seminar "The Evolution of Female Personality." Includes questions concerning education, abortion and contraception, and black women in America. Quarto (28cm.); original pale blue printed staplebound wrappers; mixed pagination; offset from typescript. Wrappers a bit unevenly toned, else About Fine. More
A Selection of Articles and Speeches on the Status of Women and Family Planning in Yugoslavia
[Belgrade: Federal Conference of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Yugoslavia, 1975]. First English Language Edition. Small, slim octavo (20cm.); original white glossy printed wrappers; 112pp. Light soil, else Near Fine. More
Women & Abortion: The Women's Abortion & Contraception Campaign's Evidence to the Lane Commission
N.p. [London?]: n.d., 1974? First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original purple pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; tables throughout. Fine. WACC's reaction to the 1974 Lane Commission, which revisited the United Kingdom's Abortion Act of 1967 in an effort to restrict legalised abortions. More
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Poster: 30 maart vrouwenstaking [March 30th, Women's Day]
Netherlands: n.d. but 1981. Original pictorial poster (46x35cm.) printed offset in blue on white stock; light wrinkling from handling, small piece of glue residue from previously perished tape to verso of both top corners showing through to recto, else Very Good overall. Pro-choice poster, the illustration showing a written note..... More