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Collins, New York, 2007. Condition: Very Good+. Stated First U.S. Edition. No dust jacket. 270 pp. Text white, crisp, and unmarked with marbled endpapers and no prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and full-color photographs. The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as how to play stickball, learning how to play poker, mastering the game of chess, and answering the age old question of what the big deal is with girls.

Bernard Geis Associates, distributed by Random House, New York. First edition, fifth printing, October, 1960. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. 209 pp. Text block clean, unmarked and lightly sunned. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings. Red tinted top edge. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper, rear pastedown and bottom edge. Cover scuffed and corners bumped. Abigail Van Buren, commonly known as Dear Abby the column syndicate advice writer, authored this book as a primer to helping teen aged girls grapple with their problems. The questions, issues and answers are timeless. This book was primarily issued as a paperback for teens. The hardcover is somewhat scarce.

Eugenics Publishing Co., Inc. New York, 1934. 48th Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Rare. Condition: Fine. 257 pp plus one page advertising for author's book "Sex Knowledge for Men and Boys". Text clean, white, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. A remarkably pristine reprint of this early book, originally written in 1916, examining the sociological, ethical, moral, economic, medical and religious impact that birth control has on society. A truly fascinating read.Bonus: Included with this book is a paperback pamphlet "Record Calendar for Married People", a 1935 publication by the Latz Foundation, Republic Building, Chicago, Illinois designed to keep a record of the hour and day on which a woman's menstruation began. "You cannot follow the rhythm theory unless you know what your longest and shortest cycles are." The Latz Foundation collected these calendars for its scientific and research work. The blue paperback pamphlet is 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches and very rare.

American Book Company, New York, 1901. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 401pp plus 7 pp of publisher advertising Text clean and mostly unmarked. Page 23 is missing a five inch tear from lower outer edge. Prior owner attributions on front free endpapers and notes on rear endpapers. Pathfinder Physiology No. 3. Illustrated with anatomical diagrams. This book was "edited for the use of Schools in accordance with the recent Legislation upon Temperance Instruction." It carries an "Indorsement" from Mary H. Hunt, the National and International Superintendent of the Scientific Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Life Director of the National Educational Association.

W. R. Vansant, 1904. Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. First Edition. 649 pp. Text white with light sunning along top edge. Clean, unmarked with green design endpapers. Prior owner attribution in pencil on front free endpaper. Illustrated with b/w and full color illustrations and diagrams. "Vivilore: the pathway to mental and physical perfection; the twentieth century book for every woman; a brave and scholarly treatment of sex-life, parenthood, child training, beauty laws and vital interests of women and of men; also a comprehensive treatment of disease and its remedies, including materia medcia. A plea for self-knowledge, self-mastery, and self-development. Embellished with 140 illustrations in rich colors and exquisite half-tones, with numerous scientific pictu res which answer essential questions. Complete index and glossary."