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
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
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
Limericks: Too Gross
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978. First Edition. A duel of dirty limericks between Asimov and Ciardi - hilarious from start to finish. First Printing. Octavo; dark red cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 101pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $7.95). 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
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
Woman From Bondage To Freedom
New York: The Critic & Guide Company, 1921. First Edition. A survey of the evolution of women's roles from prehistory to the end of the suffrage era. Includes a chapter on Birth Control A fresh copy. Ads at rear promote the publisher's ample list of publications on sexuality, birth control... 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
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
Love's Coming of Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. Reprint of Carpenter's radical treatise on sexuality (first published in 1896), a major early statement in favor of women's sexual liberation. Small octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 85pp + ads. Mild wear to extremities; text slightly toned; Very Goode. Published as Haldeman Julius Big Blue Book No. B-41... More
White Boys
Berlin: Bruno Gmünder, 2006. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial stiff wrappers; [80pp], chiefly illustrations. Fine, unmarked copy. Nude and semi-nude portraits of young men. 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
Petting As an Erotic Exercise: A Study of the Significance and Techniques of Pre-Coital Play
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1948]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's tan staplebound wrappers printed in brownish red; 32pp. Just About Fine condition. Rather scarce Haldeman-Julius sexology pamphlet, issued as publication no. B-712. 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
The Sexual, Marital, and Family Relationships of the English Woman
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
Psychoanalysis of the Prostitute
New York: Philosophical Library, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [6],138pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, a few short closed tears, one touching text without loss of meaning, else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. More
The Marquis and the Chevalier: A Study in the Psychology of Sex as Illustrated by the Lives and Personalities of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) and the Chevalier von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1905)
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [10],295pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, corners gently bumped, top textblock edge foxed and a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good overall. More