Psychopathia Sexualis; A Medico Forensic Study; First Unexpurgated Edition in English by Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing - 1965

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965 G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1965. Hardcover. First American Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumping to head and tail; tarnishing to gilt on the spine; light thumbing soiling to text fore edge. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped; missing small pieces at head and top of front panel; chipping at tail; small closed tears on edges. Red cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 512 pp 8vo. First published in 1886 in Germany, it has been revised several times by the author and the present edition is the corrected version of his final revision with all the Latin passages rendered into English and will all the previous textual errors corrected. This book has been the standard classic for specialists in the study of sexual aberrations and for writers on the subject. The author was a pioneer in investigating sexual pathology and therefore this book contains the most comprehensive collection of case histories of sexual deviation available. This book helped bring the solace of comradeship to the victims of sexual deviations but also brought rationalism to legislation and jurisprudence by changing laws and ideas. A clean very presentable copy.