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
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
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. The African-American author's second book, "a personal look at the love relationship, through sensitive interviews with people...It is about the motivations, goals, and about some things that lovers don't even realize about themselves, like greed and deception"..... More
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chicago: Congregational Brotherhood of America, 1909-11. Official organ of the Congregational Brotherhood of America, founded in 1907 with the mission of restoring and preserving a strong masculine presence within the church. The Brotherhood Movement, which arose across multiple Protestant denominations in the early years of the Twentieth Century, was described..... More
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
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
[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
New York: Roy Publishers, n.d., ca. 1950s. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket, black topstain; xxxvi,[2],642pp.; illus. Chipping and small losses along jacket extremities, the whole rather toned, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. More