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1940réf. 43704London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1940. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's cloth in cream dust jacket printed in green; 475pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light chipping to jacket extremities shallow tear at bottom of pp. 9/10 not approaching text else a Very Good or better copy in the scarce jacket. Posthumously published and unfinished sequel to the author's "Sex and Culture" 1934. The later text attempts to answer the question as put by Huxley in his introduction "What are the conditions which must be fulfilled if a society is to go on displaying maximum energy for an indefinite period" p. 17. Thus does Unwin describe a Utopia in which sex is made available by two forms of marriage monogamous and polygamous which citizens can choose and change at will. This way: "The rulers of the world are made free by this structure to focus on the maintenance of a sustainable state" www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Ultimately however Unwin argues that the most advanced societies are those that strictly adhere to monogamy sexual freedom depleting the civilization's energy. BROMER B.59.1. George Allen and Unwin Ltd unknown books
1943réf. 15767Berkeley CA 1943-1947. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 16mo. Top-bound spiral notebook approx. 5.75 x 3.75 inches penned rectos only in a neat legible hand. Very good or better with some minor toning. Else clean sound and remarkably well-preserved. Original holograph notebook recording the mating rituals of an unnamed high school and college student during WWII. A sort of account book of the loves and losses of a young man from 1943 to 1947 the notebook meticulously notes girls names contact information what they did on the dates movies seen diners visited parties attended etc. and a brief assessment of each date enjoyable she likes to talk never enjoyed dancing so much no comment alright its slow but sure. This teenage Casanova was almost certainly a University of California student he has a car which he regularly parks on the Berkeley campus. The diary documents a stream of girls and a large part of the text describes the rise and fall of an extended romance with Marilyn. For example: If we were a bit older one would say that were engaged. And: Undoubtedly shed have enjoyed herself more with a trained dog which Im not! And eventually: At long last the embers have turned black! The diary concludes on Sept. 12 1946 when the author is 19 years old and closes somewhat philosophically: Thus I end this the first report on girls that I know or in many cases have known. I close with the realization that my search is not yet over. And so I look forward to new faces and new loves. One of the more remarkable vernacular histories we've encountered a fascinating look at romantic mores during the sociological dawn of the Teenager. paperback books
1750réf. 19240London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers ca. 1750. Stated tenth edition. Upper edge of the folding frontispiece reinforced with a later strip of paper; some general light wear and soiling; a very good copy. 12mo recent plain drab boards 4 iv 156 4. Frontis one folding plate. As the ESTC catalog entry has it "Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious." This title page one of at least three variants of the so-called tenth edition with "Women" as the final line in the paragraph beginning "A Work far more perfect. . . ." One of the so-called Aristotle titles generally attributed to the English physician William Salmon. With the striking woodcut folding plate diagram of a fully-developed fetus in the womb. Later physician's bookplate on the front paste-down. Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, unknown books
1977réf. 238222Altadena: The Marcliff Foundation 1977. Eight-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches information about the Institute the program application form dark soiling on cover and canceled stamp and address on rear. Held at the Miramar Hotel on Sunday July 17 1977. The Marcliff Foundation unknown books
2004réf. 30098NY: ReganBooks HarperCollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0060539097 . Color and black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . ReganBooks (HarperCollins) hardcover books
2004réf. 40901NY:: ReganBooks HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0060539097 . Color and black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . ReganBooks (HarperCollins), hardcover books
2000réf. 31400NY: Scribner. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0684849437 . First printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . Scribner hardcover books
1998réf. 2861Boston: Little Brown. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0316102334 . With Billie Fitzpatrick. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Little, Brown hardcover books
2000réf. x-069105813XPrinceton Univ Pr 2000. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. Princeton Univ Pr paperback
1970réf. 002522London: Andre Deutsch 1970. A near Fine copy with a little foxing to closed edges with dustjacket which has some closed tears. Translated from the German by Colin Bearne and first published under the title ' Die Sexualitat Der Frau' in 1968. Uniform with the Library Of Sexual Behavious series of which this is volume 1 English Language edition edited by Professor Fernando Henriques. C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Andre Deutsch Hardcover
1962réf. 62985New York: Bernard Geis Associates 1962. First Edition. First printing. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed boards hardcover; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Light evidence of use; board corners tapped; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped lightly rubbed at edges Very Good. Classic mid-century advice for the upwardly-mobile middle-class American male on fashion sex courtship etiquette fitness career management etc. Includes a chapter on how to join the CIA; another on how to drive a sports car. With numerous cartoons and prose extracts from the pages of the magazine by Paul Gallico Harvey Swados Jack Kerouac others. Bernard Geis Associates unknown
2021réf. ANAIS-1406399086Walker Books Ltd 2021-11-11. paperback. Good. 15.3x1.8x21.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Walker Books Ltd paperback
1955réf. 85437Frederick Publications 1955. First Thus. Octavo. 17cm. Publisher's dark blue pebblegrain cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 325pp. 54 unnumbered bibliography and index to rear. Light scuffing and rubbing to extremities and corners some dulling of the cheap gilt; internally clean with some staining to the front pastedown; in a lightly toned and soiled example of the dustjacket with some shallow chipping to spine ends and wear to the flap folds and edges. A very good copy in a jacket with some cosmetic wear. A popular reprint of Rosenbaum's 1901 work on sexuality lust and deviant debauchery in the annals of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Frederick Publications unknown
2009réf. 85431New York: Semiotext 2009. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards. 196pp. Some very slight wear to boards mostly limited to a couple of small scratches to the laminate clean and bright; internally clean signed and dated with kisses and hugs by Penny Arcade to the title page. A very good attractive copy. A collection of essays and performance pieces interspersed with interviews and editorial commentary providing a kind of retrospective of Penny Arcade's long career as an incendiary and divisive performance artist she is virtually the originator of the term in its modern context and her collaborations with artists like Jayne County Patti Smith Mink Stole John Waters and the majestic Quentin Crisp. Semiotext unknown
1913réf. 85169Chicago: O. M. Heath & Co 1913. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm. Purple ribbed cloth spine and cover titles in gilt; 3031pp; portrait frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones. A tight clean copy free of markings with just a hint of sunning to spine cloth; very Near Fine. A collection of six short tales each intended to illustrate a different aspect of "the prevalence of degeneracy in the modern era" jacket. Composts of Tradition was self-published and marketed aggressively in contemporary periodicals including The Masses and Pearson's; one such advertisement in the January 1915 issue of Pearson's outlines the book's intention: "It is not a book for prudes either male or female. It is a book for aggressive and advanced thinkers. Among other doctrines it advocates: 1 Sterilization of physical social and mental defectives; 2 Annihilation of the stigma attached to the bar-sinister; 3 Encouragement of reproduction upon the part of the fit; 4 Maintenance of all children by society; 5 Monogamy but marriage ceremonies to be optional not obligatory; 6 Divorce by collusion." At least one of the stories "Maid of the Neptunian Strand" has fantasy elements. Oscar Morrill Heath c.1872-1952 was a Chicago secondary school teacher and lecturer-for-hire on social subjects; beginning about 1905 through at least the 1920s we lose sight of him around 1930 he was the proprietor of a Chicago correspondence school for schoolteachers The Cultural Review School through whose auspices he issued a few ephemeral publications as well as a monthly magazine Teaching As A Profession. Additionally thanks to the trade card mounted in the front we know that Heath was the proprietor of at least two Chicago beauty parlors. From contemporary newspaper acccounts it appears that the current work landed Heath at least temporarily in hot water; the Chicago Tribune for November 6 1913 includes an article stating that Heath's status as an instructor at Englewood High School was "under review" pending publication of a book that was "critical of the nuptial bond" and seemed to condone childbirth out of wedlock. It is quite possible that Heath lost his position over the book as in subsequent years we find him advertising his services as a freelance instructor in a variety of topics including a review course in math for candidates to Army Officers' Candidate School during WW1. Despite its fetching title the current work is somewhat uncommon with fewer than 20 locations in OCLC most apparently in circulating collections. SMITH H-442. Not in Bleiler despite clear fantasy content. O. M. Heath & Co unknown
1970réf. 63549New York: Peter H. Wyden Inc 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; light grey cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; x1775pp. Spine ends gently nudged gentle sunning to lower board edges with a tiny nick to cloth at upper rear board edge and a faint stain to upper right corner of front cover; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.95 showing moderate wear some tears and attendant creases and some dampstains on verso at upper flap folds; Very Good. A report based on a study of 208 middle-class adults who have used marijuana in order to enhance their sex lives. ".an informal but balanced report.It assesses marijuana not as an aphrodisiac but as a sexual stimulant and de-inhibitor for many users and as a "turn-off" for some others" from front flap. 63549. Peter H. Wyden, Inc unknown
1800réf. 5629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes." A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom." British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown
1973réf. 63239New York: Trident Press 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 251pp. Tight fine copy. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $6.95 on front flap gently rubbed at head and heel but still crisp clean and free of toning or notable wear; very Near Fine. Vassi's fifth book preceded by four works of Olympia Press erotica. A memoir of Vassi's sexual and psychedelic experiments of the Sixties. Vassi who has been called the finest erotic writer of his generation would go on to a long career as a literary spokesman for sexual and psychological liberation; he was a daring early writer on non-normative definitions of gender and redefinition of sex roles. Vassi died of complications from AIDS in 1989; this was his only volume of memoir. Trident Press unknown
2012réf. DADAX1442203668Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012-03-29. Reprint. paperback. New. 6.08x0.64x8.98. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers paperback
réf. BN262403Ethnobotany and Aztec sexuality Farfán José A and Elferink Jan G Ethnobotany and Aztec sexuality Farfán José A and Elferink Jan G Ethnobotany and Aztec sexuality Farfán José A and Elferink Jan G unknown
1963réf. A51820New York: Nite Time Books. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. C1965. This is a mass market paperback. Nite Time Book number 101 with a price of .75 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright though there is generalized toning throughout.; Nite Time Books No. 101; Mass Market PB; 160p. pages; Pictured 9/23/25 put with medicine . 1963. Nite Time Books paperback
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1887réf. 48946Paris Gauthier-Villars 1887. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 105 No 7. Pp. 325-- 563. Entire issue offered. Maupas' paper: pp. 356-359. First appearance of this classic paper in whic Maupas determined that fertilization in protozoa is essential to the indefinite continuation of a cell strain. His discovery proved an importent stimulus to subsequent investigation not only upon protozoa but also in the area of parthenogenesis."He found in Paramecium that after generations of division the stock becomes infeebled. Ultimately the individuals die unless they meet partners for conjugation. When two such enfeebled individuals meet their bodies are approximated and they interchange nuclear elements. Next division takes place. The stock has regained its vigour. No differentiation of sexes is evident in the conjugatory process though such differentiation can be traced in other prorozoa."Singer "The Story of Living Tings" p. 531 ff.Thomas Hall "A Source Book in Animal Biology" pp. 458-60. unknown
1948réf. 63271Cleveland OH: The Ralston Society 1948. 8vo. 444 pp. Decorative initials. Textured green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. minor shelfwear slight scuffing couple very small closed tears still a NF/VG copy. Third edition of volume 3 in the Magnetism Books Series Group A issued to Ralstonism adherents Home Training Course touting the possible results from embracing all human powers. Webster Edgerly 1852-1926 writing as Edmund Shaftesbury and Everett Ralston formulated an entire health and social movement with Degree levels clearly adapted from Freemasonry and other fraternal organizations coupled with a mix of eugenics pop psychology and land promotion urging the development of a home similar to those in Edgerly’s dream of a Utopian Ralston community in Hopwell NJ. Edgerly urged his followers to follow the path of Regime Activity Light Strength Temperation Oxygen and Nature to develop a new race free from racial impurities and Magnetism could change and improve your life. Very scarce in original dustjacket. See: Matthew Kassel A Self-Help Guru Named Webster Edgerly Came to Central New Jersey in 1896 with Dreams of Establishing a Utopian Society Sept. 6 2015. The Ralston Society, hardcover
