Bound Brook, N. J. Asa K. Butts, 1886. A later American printing of this landmark work on contraception, but with an interesting imprint. (See below.). 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Besant. Besant had revolutionized the publication of contraceptive information in England after her republication of..... More

Boston: J. P. Mendum, at the Office of the ‘Boston Investigator,’, 1875. Stated tenth edition, reissued here with an cancel title page. 8vo, original decorated brown cloth, gilt lettering, 88, [1] pages. Frontis, illus. This edition includes the note from Vale in which (per Atwater) “he discusses conception and its..... More

Amsterdam: W. Versluys, [1894]. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 7.75 x 5.25 inches, 62 pages. Anonymous socialist utopian fiction from the Dutch physician Rutgers (1850-1924), who became the great advocate of contraception, and of social and sexual reform in the Netherlands, sometime secretary of the Nieuw-Malthusiaansche Bond. Though evidently..... More