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Your search for Sex and Marriage has returned 33 results. Reflections of a Bachelor  Dodge Publishing Company. (1906). New York..  Illustrated boards. Illustrations. 151 pages of witty sayings such as: "Bachelors could have a fine time if there weren't any maidens and husbands to get in their way". "Man rules all dumb animals; woman rules man". "Men put money into stocks and wo men into stockings". "Politics and horse trading are child's play beside picking a wife". "Butter would not melt in the mouths of some people and lye would not scorch the mouths of others".   SINGLE MAN. UNMARRIED MEN. RELATIONSHIPS. COURTSHIP. WITTY SAYINGS. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2873)  $25.00 Secrets for Women Only, By a Famous English Actress.  A.B. Courtney.  Boston, Mass.  1895.  "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. 2, No. 19 (July 1895). 16 pages; paper wrapper (2 3/4 x 4 inches). Article concerned with the beauty of women and how to achieve & maintian it.   Condition: Very Good.  Miniature Magazines. DK-26  (Book ID 10283)  $20.00 The Why - What - and When of A Century of Progress International Exposition. Chicago 1933.  A Century of Progress Exposition.  Chicago, Illinois.  1933.  One sheet (20 x 9 inch) folded into (4 x 9 inch) with printing and illustrations on both sides. title taken from the front fold. Brochure explains exhibits (over 90), events, accessiblity, transportation, lodgings, and expenses. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Expositions, Chicago. DK-54  (Book ID 11081)  $25.00 Apollinaire, Guillaume  Dialogue du Zoppino...Introduction, Essai Bibliographique & Notes Par Guillaume Apollinaire  Bibliotheque Des Curieux. (1911). Paris..  First edition thus. Parchment over wrappers, illustrated. No. 487 of 505 copies. In French. Page edges are uncut. Devenu Frere, et Ludovico, putassier, ou sont contenues la vie et la genealogie de toutes les courtisanes de Rome.   GENEALOGIE. COURTISANES. ROME. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2881)  $187.50 Balzac, Honore De  The Girl with the Golden Eyes (La Fille Aux Yeux d'or). Translated By Ernest Dowson.  Privately Printed.  London, England.  1925.  Illustrated by Beardsley, Avbrey.  Number 66 of 1000 copies printed, circa 1925. 145 pages, illustrations; publishers binding with title label on spine. A story of love and passion. Solid clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  French Literature, Fiction. DK-15  (Book ID 9759)  $37.50 Bennett, Arnold  The Plain Man and His Wife  George H. Doran Company.  New York.  First American Edition.  Dust wrapper with two small splits at top of each side of the spine. (1913) Marriage advice by this British author, best know for his novel "The Old Wives' Tale." 110 pages, plus two pages of advertising for other books by Bennett.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 7934)  $25.00 Carpenter, Edward  Love's Coming-of-Age; A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes  Mitchell Kennerley..  New York.  1911.  Cloth. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Inked stamp on front end paper. The author describes the differences between how men and women view sex, love and marriage. Chapters include: The Sex-Passion; Man the Ungrown; Woman the Serf; Woman in Freedom; Marriage - A Retrospect; Marriage - A Forecast; The Intermediate Sex; The Free Society; Star and Sex Worships; The Primitive Group-Marriage; Preventive Checks; etc.   SCIENCES. SEXUAL RELATIONS. MARRIAGE. MATRIMONY. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2867)  $25.00 Casanova  Casanova; In Rome, In Venice, In Paris; An Appreciation by Havelock Ellis  John W. Luce and Company. 1924. Boston..  First edition. Boards. Dust wrapper, trimmed 1/2" top and bottom, no loss of text. Offsetting to front and rear end papers. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. In the Appreciation, Havelock Ellis notes: "No doubt whatever -- and this apart from the qu estion as to whether his autobiography should be counted as moral or immoral literature -- Casanova delivered himself bound into the hands of the moralists". "The Casanova family was originally Spanish". "In 1755 a spy of the Venetian Inquisition re ported that Casanova united impiety, imposture, and wantonness to a degree that inspired horror". Casanova writes about: "His adventures at the court of Rome", "His famous escape from prison in Venice", and "His state lottery wins fortune in Paris".   SEXUAL RELATIONS. LOVER. LADIES MAN. BON VIVANT. ROGUE. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2870)  $37.50 Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine  The Gods of Generation: A History of Phallic Cults Among Ancients & Moderns, Translated from the French By A.F.N.  The Panurge Press.  New York.  1933.  Publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering and decoration on front cover. Limited to 2000 copies. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 280 pages, plus index and colophon.   Condition: Very Good.  Limited Editions.  (Book ID 8374)  $37.50 Ellis, Havelock  Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston and New York.  1917.  First American Edition.  Publisher's dark blue pebble cloth with gilt lettering. Former owners' stamp and signature on front end paper and half-title. Essays on war, pacificism, birth control, prostitution, eugenics, etc. 252 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 8363)  $25.00 Hadden, Walter J.  The Science of Eugenics and Sex Life. The Regeneration of the Human Race: The Privileges and Duties of Bringing Children Into the World, elimation-Segregation-Selection, the Right to Get Married, the Law of Opposites, the Mother the Sole Arbiter of (cont.  W.R. Vansant.  1914.  (title) ... of Her Child's Fate, How to Have Perfect Children, The Effects of Environment on Children, the Science of Reproduction in all Animal and Plant Life, How the Human Body can be made Immune to Disease, Physical and Mental Training of Children and the Development of the Brain of a Child, the Sexual Laws of Nature and the Effects of Their Violation, the Bible on Sex Hygiene. From the Notes ... Edited by Charles H. Robinson. Sex-Life, Love, Marriage, Maternity: Life Centers, Man's Ideal Woman, Woman's Ideal Man, Choosing a Mate, Scientific Mating, Cupid's Conquest, the Honeymoon, What Marriage Involves, the Reproductive Organs, Pure Sex-Love, Womanhood, Pre-Natal Influence, the Fift of Motherhood, the Successful Mother, the Power of the Mind, Etc., Etc., Tec. by Mary Ries Melendy, M.D. 596 pages; illustrations; index. Bound in black cloth with title on the front cover and spine. Slight wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Manual for Eugenics and its statement which aims to breed a better human being. "Race Patriotism and Race Loyalty", etc. Pre World War I literature.   Condition: Very Good.  Eugenics, Sex Education, Personal Hygiene. DK-22  (Book ID 10074)  $37.50 Hollick, Dr. F.  The Origin of Life and Process of Reproduction in Plants and Animals, with the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Generative System, Male and Female, and the Causes, Prevention and Cure of the Special Diseases to Which it is Liable. A Plain, ... (cont)  The American News Company.  New York, New York.  1878.  (cont title) "... Practical Treatise, for Popular Use. Illustrated by Engravings and Colored Plates. New Edition, with Additions". xxxviii, 932 pages; 44 color plates (complete), 200 engravings; index; bound in three-quarter leather binding, gilt title with author on spine, raised bands. Bookseller's bookplate inside the front cover "Hellman, Stassforth & Co. - Los Angeles". Medical text dealing with the reproductive system of humans and its derangements, suitable for private and family use, along with the process of reproduction in plants and animals.   Condition: Very Good.  Reproduction, Medical Text. DK-41  (Book ID 10766)  $125.00 Keller, David H.  Sex and Society  Roman Publishing Company.  New York, N.Y..  Illustrated Paper Wrappers.  (1928). The Sexual Education Series. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Address label affixed to inside front cover. Contents include: The Relation of the Individual to Society; The Legal Relation of the Sexes; Abnormal Sexual Life; Abnormal Relations Between Parent and Child; Eroticism and Modern Society; The Psychopathic Personalities; Sterilization and Segregation; Man's Responsibility to Society; etc.   Sexual Education. Sexual Relations. Sexual Life. Eroticism. Abnormal Relations.  (Book ID 3863)  $15.00 Keller, David H.  Sexual Diseases and Abnormalities of Adult Life  Roman Publishing Company.  New York, N.Y..  Illustrated Wrappers.  (1928). The Sexual Education Series. Address label affixed to inside front cover. Contents include: The Cause of Unhappiness; Syphilis; Gonorrhoea; Abortion; The Homosexual Life; Celibacy in the Adult Male; Celibacy in the Adult Female; The Normal Sex Life; Types of Erotic Life; Impotency in the Man; A Plea for Cleaner Living; etc.   Sexes. Illnesses. Transmissions. Syphilis. Gonorrhoea. Impotency. Sterility.  (Book ID 3864)  $15.00 Law, Hartland, and Herbert E. Law  Viavi Hygiene for Women, Men and Children  The Viavi Company. (1905). San Francisco..  Cloth. 610 pages. Partial split to rear end papers at spine. Slight spotting to front cover. Contents include: Diseases of Women; The Viavi System of Treatment; The Pelvic Bones; External Organs; Internal Organs; Pre-natal Influences; A Talk With Me n; Womanly Beauty; Conjugal Relations; Menstruation; Inflammation of the Womb; Curetting; Nourishing the Infant; The Change of Life; Nervous Debility; Diseases of the Lungs; Wounds, Sprains, Burns, etc.; The Forms of Viavi; etc.   FEMALE HEALTH. MARRIAGE. MATRIMONY. PARENTHOOD. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2862)  $37.50 Lewys, Georges  The House of Love (La Maitresse de son Mari)  Lavater-Dorette, Inc. 1935. Paris..  Cloth backed patterned boards. No. 533 of l000 copies. Published for the Paris Book Club of New York. Page tops and sides are uncut. Front and rear end papers are unopened. Some wear to corners. Written in the period following the close of World War I. Much of this story centers around Berkeley and San Francisco. From chapter IX: "What should I do, what would any man have done who was playing the deceived husband?" "She was in his arms as I entered. Both flew Apart! And the terror in her face confirmed the opinion that I had formed of myself on crossing the threshold. I must have looked quite mad!"   MARRIAGE. WEDLOCK. INFIDELITY. FAITHLESS. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2865)  $50.00 Louys, Pierre  Ancient Manners; Complete and Integral Translation Into English  Privately Printed.  Paris.  Patterned Cloth.  Illustrated by Zier, Ed..  No date, circa 1930. Illustrations. 1,000 copies printed. Page edges are uncut. From the Author's Preface: "The principal character of the novel which the reader is about to have under his eyes is a woman, a courtesan of antiquity; but let him take heart of grace: she will not be converted in the end". "A courtesan, she will be a courtesan with the frankness, the ardour, and also the conscious pride of every human being who has a vocation and has freely chosen the place he occupies in society..." Contents include: Chrysis; On the Quay at Alexandria; Demetrios; The Virgins; The Garden of the Goddess; Love and Death; The Orgie at Bacchis's; Enthusiasm; Cleopatra; Demetrios Dreams a Dream; The Garden of Hermanubis; The Supreme Night; Chrysis Immortal; etc.   Courtesan. Antiquity. Goddess. Alexandria. Ancient Greeks.  (Book ID 3865)  $25.00 Macfadden, Bernarr  Manhood and Marriage  Physical Culture Publishing Co. (1916). New York City..  Cloth. Front and rear end papers split at spine. Chapters include: The Importance of Virility; Am I a Complete Man?; Is Marriage a Necessity?; Selecting a Wife; Love-Making and its Dangers; Regulating Marital Intimacies; A Man's Duty Toward a Pregna nt Wife; Should Husbands be Present at Childbirth?; Are Children Always Desirable?; Can a Wrecked Marriage be Reclaimed?; Quarrelling and Making-Up; The Truth About Masturbation; The Troublesome Prostate Gland; How to Build Virility; Foods That Help to Build Virile Stamina; The Prevention of Venereal Disease; Various Problems of Young Men; etc.   VIRILITY. SCIENCES. SEXUAL RELATIONS. MATRIMONY. UNION. CHILDBIRTH. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2879)  $25.00 Malinowski, Bronislaw  The Sexual Life of Savages in North =-Wester Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea...Complete in One Volume with a Preface By Havelock Ellis  Eugenics Publishing Company.  New York.  (1929). Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Text pages browning. 603 pages, including index, plus 91 pages of plates (not browning) with maps, charts and photos of natives, sometimes naked.   Condition: Very Good.  Foreign Travel. Robert Mond exposition, New Guinea 1914-1918  (Book ID 8383)  $25.00 Mantegazza, Paolo (translated by James Bruce)  Anthropological Studies of Sexual Relations of Mankind  Anthropological Press. (1932). New York..  Cloth. 1500 copies printed. Cover is stamped in pure gold leaf. Front end papers split at spine. Page sides are uncut. Contents include: The Celebration of Puberty -- Erotic Education; Debauchery and Modesty in the Human Races; The Embrace and its F orms -- Racial Arts of Love -- Deflorations; Perversions of Love Among the Various Races; The Purchase of Women and of Men; The Marriage Contract -- Fidelity and Adultery; The Position of Woman Among the Many Races of Mankind; Monogamy, Polygamy, Po lyandry -- Harem Life -- Concubinage; Male and Female Prostitution; Anthropological Theory of Sex; etc.   SCIENCES. SEXUAL RELATIONS. MARRIAGE. FIDELITY. ADULTERY. MONOGAMY. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2871)  $47.50 Markun, Leo  Mrs. Grundy; A History of Four Centuries of Morals Intended to Illuminate Present Problems in Great Britain and the United States  D. Appleton and Company. 1930. New York..  First edition. Cloth. Illustrated dust wrappers. Fully illustrated by cartoons and caricatures, by reproductions of paintings and drawings, etc. 666 pages. Page sides are uncut. From the dust wrapper: "Here is a brilliant, sophisticated, and compreh ensive survey of the moral history of Great Britain since the days of Henry VIII and of the United States since the early English settlement". "Within its pages, Leo Markun has assembled an immense wealth of pertinent material, covering four complet e centuries of moral standards and practices and illuminating all of the following subjects of current discussion in light of the past: Sex morality; prudery in costume; art and literature; birth control; drinking; gambling; social manners; Sunday o bservance; freedom of utterance and worship; honesty in government and business; and in general the influence of religion upon morality".   ETHICS. RIGHTEOUS. NOBLE. SCRUPULOUS. PRUDERY. HONESTY. RELIGIOUS. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2864)  $50.00 Mead, Margaret  Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Sutdy of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization...foreword By Franz Boas  Jonathan Cape.  London.  First British Edition.  (1929). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. No deust wrapper. Twelve illustration on eight pages, complete. 297 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Sotuh Pacific. Female Sexuality  (Book ID 8349)  $37.50 Nin, Anais  Little Birds: Erotica By Anais Nin  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc..  New York, New York.  1979.  xi, 146 pages; red cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar. Anais Nin (1903-1977) was a Cuban-Spanish-French author who lived in France and America. She is most famous for her published journals of sixty years, from the age 11 to her death. She was Henry Miller's lover during the 1930s in France and this book was an outcome of writing erotica for one dollar a page during this period to have an income, though published in the 1970s. Residue from a sticker on inside front flap of dust jacked, but a fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Female Erotica. DK-67  (Book ID 11319)  $25.00 O'Rell, Max  Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty -- Cupid  The Abbey Press.  London.  First Edition.  Cloth.  (1901). Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Page edges are uncut. The author provides his observatons about men and women, which may help us to understand each other better. Contents include: "Chapter I; Advice to the Man Who Wants to Marry; What should attract him in matrimony -- At what age should people get married? -- Be superior to your wife in everything". "Chapter XXIX; The Liberty of Anglo-Saxon Women; The mistakes made by foreigners -- Misconstructions -- Educational systems -- Girls do not lose their charm by independence". "Chapter XXXVIII; On Mothers-in-Law; How to deal with them -- Difference between a misfortune and an accident -- 'That will spoil the whole thing' -- Shoot her!".   Relationships. Courtship. Matrimony. Male-Female. Love.  (Book ID 3757)  $25.00 Page, Francis, Editor  Casanova Jr.'s Tales; Vol. 1, No. l - 4  The Two Worlds Publishing Co. Inc. 1926 and 1927. (New York City)..  Wrappers. Vol. 1, No. 1 - 4 complete (magazine title changed to "Secret Memoir" after No. 4). No. 1 privately printed. All page sides and bottoms are uncut. No. 1, April, 1926 - margin tears to pages 23-26, 79-80, 111-112 and rear end paper. No. 2, July, 1926 - Slight chipping to top of wrappers, sun fading to spine. No. 3, October, 1926 - Slight chipping to bottom of spine. No. 4, January, 1927 - Slight chipping to top and bottom of wrappers; margin tears pages 519-526 and 567-568. Contents: No. 1 - A Nun's Immortality, A Jolly Time, The Man Who Pranced, etc.; No. 2 - The Isles of Love, The Passing of the Backhouse, The Memoirs of Casanova, etc.; No. 3 - Bootleg and Women, Virginity and Its Traditions, The Sixth Satire of Juvenal, etc.; No. 4 - Sportive Sonnets, A Comedy of Thoughts, The Girdle of the Virgin Mary, etc.   FICTION. RELATIONS. SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS. MEMOIRS. VIRGINITY. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2869)  $75.00 Rutgers, J.  How to Attain and Practice the Ideal Sex Life; Ideal Sex and Love Relations for Every Married Man and Woman  Falstaff Press Inc. (1937). New York..  Cloth. 397 pages. This book is a complete translation by Norman Haire, of "Das Sexualleben in seiner biologischen Bedeutung". Small ink notation front end paper. Contents include: Anatomy and Function of Sex Organs in Man and Woman; Sex Health and t he Perfect Sex Act; Modern Methods of Sexual Control; Modern Art of Love - Best Techniques for its Performance in Ideal Marriage by all Ages and Types of Men and Women; Healthier Sex Relations and Techniques; etc.   SCIENCE. SEXUAL LIFE. PROCREATION. PHYSICAL INTIMACY. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2866)  $25.00 Stiles, Henry Reed  Bundling; its Origin, Progress and Decline in America  Knickerbocker Publishing Company. 1871. Albany..  First edition. Cloth. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Front and rear end papers partially split at spine. The author states that bundling was practiced in two forms: "First, between strangers, as a simple domestic make-shift arrangement, often arising from the necessities of a new country, and by no means peculiar to America; and, secondly, between lovers who shared the same couch, with the mutual understanding that innocent endearments should not be exceeded. It was, however, in e ither case, a custom of convenience".   CUSTOM. COURTSHIP. TRAVELLERS. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2868)  $47.50 Stiles, Henry Reed, M.D.  Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America  The Peter Pauper Press.  Mt. Vernon, New York.  1937.  Publisher's cloth backed boards. Some spotting to cloth. Edge wear to boards. Dark spot on copyright / dedication pages probably due to a newspaper article being laid in. Illustrated with amusting woodcuts by Herb Roth. 1450 copies printed at the Walpole Printing Office.   Condition: Good.  (Book ID 8224)  $37.50 Terentius Afer, Publius  Pvb. Terentii Comoediae Sex Ex Recensione Heinsiana.  Lvgd. Batavorvm, Ex Officina Elzeviriana.  1635.  Bound by Cox & Ogle, Cambridge, in vellum, spine stamped 'Terence' near top and 'Elzevir 1635' at base, engraved pictorial title page, (48), 304 pages plus 8 page index, small portrait, inner titles printed in black and red, 5 1/4 x 3". Some staining to early leaves, title page chipped on fore edge, else a nice copy, tight, boards bowed, as usual with vellum. The fifth Elzevir edition, published the same year as the first.   Early Printed Books; Vellum Bindings; Elzevir  (Book ID 5859)  $250.00 Thompson, Loyd  The Great Red Plague; A Survey for Laymen of the History, Cause, Prevention and Treatment of Syphilis  Haldeman-Julius Publications.  Girard, Kansas.  Illustrated Wrappers.  (1931). 59-page booklet with publisher's advertising. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2". Slight water spotting and sun fading to bottom edge of front cover. Sun fading to top edge of rear cover. Contents include: The History of Syphilis; The Importance of Syphilis (Geographical Distribution. Economic Importance.); The General Course of Syphilis (Chancre. Lymphatic Glands. Skin Eruptions. etc.); Congenital Syphilis (Etiology. Syphilis in the Third Generation. etc.); Prognosis; Treatment (Mercury. Arsenic. Bismuth. Intraspinal Treatment. etc.); etc.   Disease. Transmission. Infection. Medicine. Treatment. Cure.  (Book ID 4371)  $12.50 Weems, Mason L.  Three Discourses; 1, Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant; 2, The Drunkard's Looking Glass; 3, God's Revenge Against Adultery  Random House. 1929. New York..  Cloth backed patterned boards. Illustrations. No. 750 of 1000 copies. Page edges are uncut. Margin tear to top of pages 7-8 and 23-24. In the Introduction the author is described thusly: "His wit is as genuine as it is spontaneous, and his angle of astigmatism presents the world as slightly yet as ever so merrily askew". "He makes his murderers blithe and jaunty, his gamblers and winebibbers fairly bawl for joie de vivre, his duellists are as eager for the fray as the lover for his lass.." "To any one who relishes an imp, who has in inborn love for the freakish, Weems cannot fail to win his way". Contents: "Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant" - Or the New Matrimonial Tat-too, for the Old Bachelors - With some Elegant Songs; "The Drunkard's Look ing Glass" - Reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, with lively representations of the many strange capers which he cuts at different stages of his disease"; "God's Revenge Against Adultery" - Awfully e xemplified in the following cases of American Crim. Con.   FICTION. SEXUAL RELATIONS. MARRIAGE. INFIDELITY. FAITHFULNESS. ADULTERY. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2872)  $37.50 Whitcombe, Joshua  Book of Love Letters Containing a Great Variety of Model Letters, Covering a Broad Range of Subjects Relating to Love, Family Affairs, Friendship, Social Intercourse, etc.  I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publisher. (1912). Baltimore, Maryland..  Illustrated wrappers. From the Introductory Remarks: "In the composition of a letter on any subject lucidity and ornateness of expression is the paramount object to be acquired". "The use of unnecessary adjectives and extravagant terms having no dir ect essential bearing upon the subject matter should be sedulously avoided". Letter samples: Sentimental Letter from a Gentleman in Florida to a Lady in California; From a Lady Declining a Proposal of Marriage; A Gentleman Accusing a Lady of Coquetr y; Father to Reckless Son; Letter of Regrets; Apology for a Broken Engagement; etc.   ETIQUETTE. CORRESPONDENCE. MANNERS. SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR. Sex and Marriage  (Book ID 2874)  $20.00 Wood-Allen, Mary M.D.  Teaching Truth  The Arthur H. Christ Co..  Cooperstown, NY.  (1907). Publisher's blue ribbed cloth with silver lettering. A book of advice, from a woman doctor on puberty and on how to talk to children about sex. 104 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  19th Century Medical Guide.  (Book ID 7977)  $17.50

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