![Item #14709 George Eliot's Two Marriages: An Essay [wrapper title]. Charles Ames, ordon](/pictures/thumb/14709.jpg?v=1465913974)
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold for the Friendly Society, 1885. First edition. 16mo, original printed wrappers, 27, [2] pages. The progresive Unitarian minister here examines the novelist's long-term relationship with G. H. Lewes, with whom she had eloped in 1854 (despite his open marriage with Agnes Jervis, he was unable to..... More
[San Francisco]: San Francisco News Company, 1878. First edition. Small 8vo (6.75 x 5 inches), original purple cloth, gilt lettering, xx, 505, [1] pages. Frontis portrait, vignette illustrations in the text. The self-described Thermal-Sudatorist and Pioneer Water-Cure Physician here publishes a comprehensive hydropathic guide to health for the family, including..... More
Exeter: Published for the Author, 1844. Second edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 5.5 inches, 84 pages. "As nothing cuts like the truth, it is presumed that the individuals here implicated will be full of wrath and indignation. They may accuse me of writing this book to excite public sympathy..... More
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
[Boston?]: National Divorce League, 1893. First edition of this extract from the Minutes of the Association. On how to combat the decline of family life, the increase in divorce, and the prevalence of sexual vice in contemporary society. Blame in part is laid to the absence of men on business..... More
[N. p., but Reading, Penna.?]: Printed for the Trade, [ca. 1898-1900]. 8vo, original pictorial green wrappers, [1-4], [9]-99, [17] pages. Illus. Fold-out illustrated ad for the Spanish Magnetic Dip Needle (a scientific divining device) tipped in before the title page. A later edition of a popular cheap pulp book on..... More
St. Louis: n. p., 1910. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 32 pages. “Wherever Rousseauism has gained a foothold, the divorce evil has grown beyond bounds; and after the patient toil of nineteen centuries in which the Church has snatched so large a portion of humanity from barbarism..... More
Boston: Printed by T. R. Marvin, 1826. First edition. 8vo, removed, 27, [1] pages. A detailed sermon on the good works of this rescue mission for prostitutes in Boston, with much in the way of anecdote and first-hand accounts of conversions. "One came to the Refuge who was led astray..... More
Brooklyn, N. Y. “Laisves” Spauda ir Turtas, 1918. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 24 pages. An early example of several booklets of sexual health and instruction from this Chicago Lithuanian socialist doctor, here published by an evident socialist press in a period contemporary to the spread of Margaret..... More
London: Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1880. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 19 pages. Lengthy and legalistic arguments in favor of reforming the marriage laws of Britain, with special focus on the ins and outs of Parliament since the Bill of 1835. Oddly, OCLC seems to note..... More
New-York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. Stated second edition; a 47-page edition was published in Carlisle, Penna., in 1826. 8vo, removed from a nonce volume (retaining the printed front wrapper and the larger volume's front free endpaper), 48 pages. "Abolish this law; expel this household God: Let it be publicly..... More
Venezia: Antonio Graziosi, 1774. Third Italian edition. 8vo, contemporary vellum spine, sprinkled boards, [2], 164 pages. A nice early Italian edition of this critical work in the pathologization of masturbation. Perhaps an obversation might be made on the spread of a fundamentally Protestant approach to the idea of a “solitary..... More
Newark, Ohio: Star Publishing Steam Print, 1885. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, [23] pages. An uncommon publication from a reforming organization backed by progressive lawyers and churchmen alike; the title page is here transcribed to include the corporate author, though the catalogued record on OCLC (which notes three..... More
![Item #17283 Autograph letter, signed, to Mrs. Grace B. Daughty [i.e., Grace M. Doughty] of Twin...](/pictures/thumb/17283.jpg?v=1465913992)
Cheyenne, Wyo., May 16, 1930. Two pages on one leaf, approx. 10.5 x 7 inches, approx. 420 words, Hackman Coal Yard ("Just the Kind of Coal You Want") letterhead. A remarkably frank attempt to curry a long-distance relationship with a married woman. Hackman, a "58 years young" widower had placed..... More
Middlebury, Vt. Printed by J. W. Copeland, 1830. Stated third edition; the first appeared in 1824 (perhaps printed in Hebron, Connecticut), followed by an 1826 Schenectady edition. Contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 6.94 x 4.25 inches, gilt rules, 268 pages, all edges stained yellow. “*This really is one of the..... More
(Toronto: Canadian Social Hygiene Council), [ca. 1933]. First edition thus. 24mo, original pictorial blue-green wrappers, 24 pages. “In the development of Canada women have made a splendid record.” Basic health advice for girls and young women, with glances upon exercise and diet, but primarily aimed at sexual purity and the..... More
[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1894]. First edition of each House Report. Two removed pamphlets, approx. 9 x 5.5 inches, 12, 10 pages. HR Report No. 1110 and 1110, Part 2. Should a drunken sexual deviant receive a military pension? The recommendation of the House Committee on Military Affairs to..... More
(Long Beach, California: Glandualar Products Co.), [ca. 1954]. First edition. Unbound folded brochure, 8.5 x 2.75 inches folded (8.5 x 11 unfolded), [4] pages. Illus. An attractive promotional pamphlet. Premature ejaculation cured with the topical application of Dybutol; Vita-Gland supplements for men over 40 available over the counter. Includes both..... More
New-England: Printed for the Publishers, 1821. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 286 pages. Woodcut illus. (monstrosities, fetus in the womb) in the text. “Neither should these amorous engagements be too often reiterated, till the conception be confirmed; and even then the bridegroom should remember, that it is..... More
London: Printed for Charles Green, [1747]. First edition. Removed pamphlet glued into later wrappers, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, [4], 78, [2] pages. An object lesson in affairs of the heart from this notorious bigamist and MP, the public and at times fairly explicit defense of a rather sordid affair: Creswell..... More
London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, [ca. 1750]. Stated tenth edition. 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..... More
![Item #20007 In the Parlor with the Lamp Turned Low [wrapper title]. SMUT, H. H. Hill](/pictures/thumb/20007.jpg?v=1615921747)
[New York: H. H. Hill, No. 264 William St. ca. 1906]. First edition. Wire stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, 7.63 x 5.5 inches, [32] pages printed on cheap peach paper stock. Illus. A cheap compendium of suggestive and lightly smutty song lyrics and short humorous squibs, with titles like, “Sporty George..... More
New-York: Printed by Largin & Thompson, 1811. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 8 x 5 inches, 84 pages. “He asked me to step into another room, as he had some questions to ask me. I went, and no sooner sat down, than he attempted to put his hands in my bosom..... More
Paris: 62, Rue de Rivoli, 1881. First edition. 16mo, original discreet plain rose pink wrappers, 89, [1] pages. Illus. Confidential medical promotional pamphlet for "men of the world," with much on skin maladies from impurities of the blood, spermatorrhea, female maladies, etc., all tending to promote the sale of Biscuits..... More
