Sexuality and Psychoanalysis
New York: Brunner/Mazel, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; x,[2],312pp. Spine rather cocked, jacket extremities a bit chipped and toned, else Near Very Good and sound. More
Sexuality
Collection of Ten Jet Magazine Risqué Calendars, 1968-1983
[New York]: Johnson Publishing Co. Representative run of these quite uncommon African-American "pin-up" calendars, issued to subscribers of Jet beginning at least as early as 1965 and continuing through the 2000's. John H. Johnson, publisher of Jet, was among the first American publishers to perceive a market for African-American erotica..... More
Sexual Harrassment. On-the-Job Sexual Harassment: What the Union Can Do
Washington DC: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 1982. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21cm); printed card wrappers; 40pp. Mild external rubbing; Very Good or better. Quite early and forward-thinking articulation of definitions, laws, and strategies for overcoming workplace sexual harrassment. AFSCME pioneered sexual conduct policy in..... More
We Walk Alone
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, [1955]. First Edition. Pseudonymously published account of the "twilight world of the sexes" (from Dr. Richard H. Hoffmann's blurb on rear cover), by the author of the early pulp lesbian novel "Spring Fire" (published under the name "Vin Packer"). 12mo (18cm.); publisher's..... More
Dirty Windows
New York: Scalo, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm x 23.5cm). Black paper-covered boards (hardcover) with titling on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 112pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; some shelf wear. American photographer Merry Alpern spent the winter of 1993-94..... More
1st Woman in Her Field / Ms. Interview / Gail Garrot: Big City Cop
Detroit: Fifth Estate Newspaper, [1975]. First Edition. Satirical broadside, originally published as a centerfold in the Detroit anarchist underground newspaper Fifth Estate; here separately issued on higher-quality paper. Lampoons the middle-class, anglo-centric ethos of Ms. magazine, which by the mid-70s had become a thoroughly mainstream publication. Text signed: "Reprinted from..... More
Poor Faun
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original buckram in pictorial dust jacket; [2],344pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, including chips and a few short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in About Very Good, attractive dust jacket. Novel describing marriage to a "faun," the word used to..... More
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[Drop title] The Institution of Sexual Intercourse
New York: The Feminists, [1968]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); white and tan side-staplebound self-wrappers; [10]pp. printed from typsecript. Fine condition. Study of the vaginal orgasm and the construct of the institution of sexual intercourse, by the leading member of the New York-based group The Feminists, who splintered from the National..... More
Confidential Chats With Young Men: "If Only Someone Had Told Me"
N.p. [Chicago?]: Shrewsbury Publishing Co, 1930. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 75pp; 7 leaves of plates (halftones). Light external soil; text paper darkened (but not brittle); Very Good. On the dangers of syphillis. Crudely produced, and uncommon; OCLC gives two locations only (Pittsburgh State & Muhlenberg University). The author was a...... More
The Girl With the Golden Eyes
New York: Williams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930. Reprint. Large octavo (24.5cm); black cloth boards, stamped in gilt, beveled edges; 154pp frontis.,5 plates. Gilt dulled on spine; extremities rubbed, thin spots along spine and leading corners; mild soiling and wear. Top edge stained black, fore edge dackled; some interior toning and..... More
Tamasburo Bando, Onnagata
[Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1983]. First Edition. Folio (37cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; unpaginated; chiefly color photographic illus. Spine and bottom edge of upper cover rather sunned, spine crown very slightly pulled, old price sticker to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Photobook devoted entirely to the career Bando..... More
Congress Investigates Sex
Chicago: Atomic Age Publishers, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; [2],111pp.; illus. A hint of wear from handling, else Fine. Collection of satirical Congressional hearings " which may someday take place," written in the style of the McCarthy-era anti-communist fear-mongering. More
Prostitution and Morality: A definitive report on the prostitute in contemporary society and an analysis of the causes and effects of the suppression of prostitution
London: Souvenir Press, [1965]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in brown dust jacket; ix,[1],495pp. Light wear to jacket extremities; Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First published in the United States a year earlier. More
Letters to a Young Lady
Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1818. Reprint. 16mo (14cm). Contemporary American tree calf; gilt decorations to spine and board edges; morocco spine label; 332pp, with engraved half-title present. Contemporary bookplate inside front cover (Frances Paca Dallam, of the prominent Maryland family); 4-pp publisher's catalog at rear. A trim, pretty little volume, clean..... More
I Pose
New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. First American Edition. British feminist's first book, originally published in Great Britain in 1915, composed during the early stages of the first World War, during which time Benson worked for the Women Writers' Suffrage League and United Suffragists. Rececca West described I Pose as "the..... More
Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia
Berkeley: University of California, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],344pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. More
Sex Code of California: A Compendium
Los Altos, CA: William Kauffman, Inc / for Public Education and Research Committee of California, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 197pp. Mild toning to covers, else fine. Survey of laws relating to venereal disease, abortion, homosexuality, sexual deviance, etc. Kauffman imprint is hand-stamped at base of title page..... More
Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace
Cologne: Könemann Verlaggesellschaft mbH, 2001. First English Language Edition. Quarto (30.5cm x 24cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 560pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities, else..... More
A Clip of Steel
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The "clip of steel" of the title refers to a device inflicted upon the child by his father, designed to "deter nocturnal erections and to prevent the loss of..... More
Female Sexuality
New York: IUP, 1953. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 225pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper; Very Good or better with text clean and unmarked. 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
Enough: The Journal of the Bristol Women's Liberation Group - 2 issues, including Issue no. 5 (ca May 1973)
Bristol: Bristol Women's Liberation Group, [1972]. First Edition. 2 issues; octavo (approx. 21 - 23.5cm.); original pictorial staplebound card wrappers; illus. No printed volume or number statement provided for either issue; no 5 is numbered in ink (holograph) on verso of rear wrapper. Literary journal consisting primarily of essays both..... More
The Sure Hand of God
Lawrence: The Falcon Press, 1948. First U.K. Edition. Attractive British edition of this mid-career novel by Caldwell, the story of an ill-fated small-town woman of "easy virtue" who tries to find a man for herself and her dim-witted 18 year old daughter. Hilarity ensues. FIrst Impression. Octavo; red-orange cloth, with..... More
The Latest So-Called Miracle Cures for Gonorrhea. Are the Sulfas and Penicillin Miracle Drugs? Why Are New Drugs Being Developed? Is Prophylaxis Effective?
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1947. First Edition. Plain facts about The Clap, addressed to a post-war lay audience. An issue of burning importance to recently returned G.I.'s. Issued as H-J Big Blue Book no. 549; among the more uncommon Haldeman-Julius publications. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 32pp. Slight toning to..... More
Marilyn Chambers: My Story
[New York]: Warner Paperback Library, [1975]. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); original white photographically illustrated card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; 206pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Spine cracked with one leaf of plates separated but present; some dust-soiling to wrappers; Good or better. Memoirs of..... More