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[New York: Falstaff Press / Anthropological Press, 1934]. Limited Edition. No. 294 of 3000 copies printed. Large octavo (26cm). Three-piece binding in silver cloth, backed in cream paper, stamped in gilt on spine; xxxii,320pp; in-text illustrations, and inserted plates. Rubbed with minor edgewear, front hinge cracked through but holding, rear hinge partially cracked, minor dampstain to rear endleaves: Good only. De Sade wrote 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille and concealed the manuscript in the stone walls; it was not recovered until the twentieth century, when it was published by Iwan Block in 1904. [63301].

Detroit: Fifth Estate Newspaper, [1975]. First Edition. Broadside, 36.5cm x 56cm (ca 14-1/2" x 22"). Printed recto-only; text in three columns with photographic reproductions. Fine. 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 Ms. Magazine by the Eat the Rich Gang;" photo credits Tom Giacoma and Mark Centkowski. OCLC notes 2 locations (University of Michigan, U.Virginia).

[London]: Labour Abortion Rights Campaign, n.d. [1979]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp. Fine. Includes a history of abortion rights by Mary Donnelly and the essay "The 1967 Abortion Act and its opponents," by Ann Kingsbury. 3 copies in OCLC as of May, 2015, UC Davis & Northwestern only in North America.

New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1973. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original white staplebound printed card wrappers; 25 leaves printed on rectos only & [12]pp. article; illus. Near Fine. Forms part of the ACLU Reports, this research funded by the Juvenile Rights Project. Includes reprint of the article "Birth Control, Teen-Agers and the Law: A New Look, 1971," by Harriet F. Pilpel and Nancy F. Wechsler, published in Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 3, no. 3, July, 1971.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1974. First Edition. Committee print. Green wrappers; 729pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. First volume of hearings (4 volumes were eventually published) on proposed "Right to Life" legislation following the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing women the right to seek an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. This volume includes testimony of Senators Jesse Helms, James L. Buckley and Ernest Gruening; Reps. Bella Abzug, Donald M. Fraser, Ron Dellums, Clare Booth Luce, and many others including civilian witnesses and numerous representatives of the clergy.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth, titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; 89pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly rubbed but unclipped dustwrapper, Very Good.

Boston: Porter Sargent, [1956]. Octavo (22cm). Brown paper wrappers; [vi],186pp; list of Sorokin titles facing title page. Previous owner's name and address in ink on rear wrapper. Lightly rubbed at edges, else stable and clean: Very Good. An Extending Horizons Book. Sorokin was a Russian-American anti-communist sociologist who wrote several books on social change. This title descries the contemporary rise in divorce and proliferation of promiscuity, which he argued would lead to cultural decline. [62818].

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002 [but 2001]. Uncorrected Proof. Quarto (27.75cm.); cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[5],374pp.; illus. Fine. Uncorrected, advance page proofs, reproducing manuscript notes to the printer.

New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Pocket Books Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; bright pink edge-staining; [6],184,[2]pp ads. Gentle sunning to top edge, else a Fine, unread copy. Attractive copy of Williams's first novel, initially released by Ace in 1960. A powerful story of the racism that faces an educated Black man in the professional world, and the painful truths that warp interracial sex.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2006. First Edition. First impression. Signed on title page by Faber. Octavo; paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; 199pp. Fine, unread copy in unclipped dustwrapper and unworn slipcase. A sequel of sorts to Faber's bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White (2002).

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original sandy brown printed wrappers, stapled; [2],32pp. Touch of oxidation to staples, else very Near Fine. Survey of the methods and history of artificial impregnation, including sections on legal and ethical implications, by the author of such other classics as Superfluous Hair and Its Removal (1938) and Chastity Safeguards (1947). Among the scarcer Haldeman-Julius publications; OCLC notes 8 holdings (UC Davis, U.South Florida, Harvard, Northwestern, U.Kansas, U.Illinois, U.Alberta, American Atheists).

New York: Crown Publishers, 2005. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 463pp; illus. Fine, new-appearing copy in unworn, unclipped dustwrapper.

Montreal: Handbook Collective, 1972. Tenth (Revised) Edition. Issued in August, 1972. Small quarto (25.25cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 48pp; illus. Mild toning to extremities, else Fine. Well preserved copy of this manual produced by the Montreal-based Handbook Collective, which provides detailed information for men and women on sexual health and birth control. Photographic illustrations by André Giguere.

New York: Howell, Soskin, 1946. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 325pp. Tight, clean, and textually unmarked; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustwrapper by Garth Williams, unclipped (priced $2.75 on lower front flap); lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with some fading on spine; Very Good+. An attractive copy. A late-career novel by the prolific Welsh novelist and story-writer, now perhaps best known as an intimate friend of D.H. Lawrence. Though framed as a sort of parody of the late-Victorian comedy-of-manners, the current work is actually a rather daring investigation of sex and courtship traditions under the censorious eye of the Welsh Catholic church.

New York: Grove Press / Evergreen, 1989. Second Evergreen Edition. Octavo (23.25cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [ii],[6],7-165,[7]pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. A sharp copy of Acker's best-known novel, written in the 1970's, and first published by Pan Books in London in 1984.

Bloomington, IN: Bloomington Women's Liberation Front, 1971. First Edition. Five quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed sheets, printed in colors and stapled at upper left corner; ca.8-12pp per issue. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. A nearly complete run, lacking only the first one or possibly two issues, of this ephemeral Indiana women's underground publication. OCLC cataloging incorrectly states that publication "began and ceased with Oct 13, 1971," and noting physical holdings at 4 locations.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo; gray cloth, with titles stamped in green and black on spine; dustjacket; 74pp, [6]. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a few pinpoint rubs to extremities. First book by the noted feminist and social activist, a collection of poems on "sex and death, poems which are assaults upon events and human isolation.

Statesville, NC: American Psychiatrists for Neutrality on Abortion, [1991-92]. Original broadisde, with text and illustrations printed in black on white bond, measuring 8.5" x 11". Horizontal fold smoothed-out at center, else Near Fine. Broadside issued by the American Psychiatrists for Neutrality on Abortion (APNOA), highlighting the conflict within the mental health community (specifically the APA) over the abortion issue. The APNOA "was formed after APA's President Elissa Benedak invited Planned Parenthood's President Faye Wattleton to address the Convocation at APA's 1991 annual meeting in New Orleans. Co-chairs Patricia Wesley of Yale University School of Medicine and Audrey Michal, M.D. found that many psychiatrists did not know of their association's promotion of abortion. Moreover even many pro-abortion psychiatrists opposed the APA's taking sides on this complex moral issue" (Maloof, George E. "Religion at the American Psychiatric Association." The Linacre Quarterly Vol.61, No.2 (May, 1994), p.12). Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1938. First Edition. Advance Issue, with "Advance Complimentary Copy" rubber-stamped to lower edge of textblock. Octavo (20.25cm); original wrappers bound into publisher's dustjacket; [10],11-477,[3]pp. Forward lean, light wear to extremities, with some vertical creasing to spine, faint foxing to text edges, with light dust-soil to wrappers; Very Good and sound. Uncommon format of the Pittsburgh author's first novel, and one of the first works of fiction to deal in depth with the subject of artificial insemination. The novel is centered around Cindy Gaylord, a wealthy young woman whose father is murdered while carrying on an affair. Deserted by her fiancé, she grows to hate men and the way they are "degraded by the passion Nature has cursed him with..." (p.95). She attempts to manipulate the stock market in an attempt to ruin the man who shot her father; having succeeded, and added substantially to her wealth, she desires to satisfy her maternal urge through the means… Read More

Chicago: Congregational Brotherhood of America, 1909-11. Three square 16mo volumes (16cm x 13cm). Modern maroon buckram with gilt titling; variously paginated. Fine. Comprises the entirety of Vols I (April-Dec 1909, six issues); II (Jan-Dec 1910, eight issues); III (Jan-Dec 1911, eight issues). Individual issues vary from ca. 40 to ca 120pp; issued irregularly. This run apparently complete; bound without cover wraps; Fine. 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 by one contemporary observer as "a modern vehicle for the expression of virile Christianity and for emphasizing the distinctly masculine appeal of religion" (McFarland (ed), Encyclopedia of Sunday Schools and Religious Education. NY: 1915). This periodical evidently uncommon; OCLC… Read More