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1. [Alcott, William Andrus (1798-1859)].

The Physiology of Marriage. Fifteenth Thousand. Boston: Published by John P. Jewett and Company / Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington / NY: Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman, 1856. Later printing. [Firs t published the same year]. [ii]+259+[1]pp. 12mo. Embossed mauve cloth with gilt-stamped & blind-embossed spine, and yellow endpapers. Cloth faded and with a few erosion spots and shelfwear, slight staining to the sheets, but generally a very good copy. Uncommon. An uncommon period sex manual. Inquire | Order $75.00

2. Biener, Kurt.

Sexualhygiene im Jugendalter. Psychologische Praxis Heft 42. Basel: S. Karger, 1968. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [4]+44pp. 8vo. Printed gray wrappers with black lettering. A very good copy. Inquire | Order $8.50

3. Bigelow, Maurice A.

Adolescence: Educational and Hygienic Problems. Issued in The National Health Series. New York/London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1924. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [x]+60+[10]pp. 16mo. Printed embossed flexible brown cloth. A very good copy. Contains chapters on sex education and adolescent hygiene. Smith Ely Jelliffe's copy, with his bookplate. Inquire | Order $13.85

4. Broderick, Carlfred B. & Bernard, Jessie [Shirley] (born 1903), eds.

The Individual, Sex, and Society. A SIECUS Handbook for Teachers and Counselors. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, [1969]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. xvi+406+[2]pp. Text il lustrations. 8vo. Powder blue cloth with silver spine lettering. A very good copy in worn dust jacket. Inquire | Order $5.00

5. Chesser, Eustace (born 1902).

Is Chastity Outmoded? London: Heinemann, [1960]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. xiv+122pp. 16mo. Black cloth. A very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. Inquire | Order $8.95

6. Congrès Annuel L'hygiène mentale et l'éducation.

L'Hygiène mentale et l'éducation. Premier Congrès annuel 19-22 juin 1940. Ottawa: Les Éditions Du Levrier, [1940]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 187+[1]pp. 8vo. Printed beige wrappers with black an d red lettering. Front wrapper detached, else very good. Very scarce. Contains A. Barbeau's "L'Enfant et la Criminologie"; E. C. Webster's "The Personality Development of the Secondary School Child"; "R. Mailloux's "Hygiène Mentale et Éducation Sexuelle" ; A. G. Bills' "The Hygiene of Mental Work"; J. Long's "The Role of the Teacher in Character Education"; A. Marcotte's "La Pratique de l'Hygiène Mentale à l'École". OCLC records only 1 copy (in Brazil). Inquire | Order $75.00

7. Deaton, John.

Love and Sex in Marriage: A Medical Doctor's Guide to the Sensual Union. West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, Inc., [1978]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 239+[1]pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. A very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. < EM> Inquire | Order $7.51

8. Dennett, Mary Ware (1872-1947).

The Sex Education of Children. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1931. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [2]+195+[3]pp. 12mo. Printed blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear and rubbing to the edges, photographic bookplate to the front blank and owner's ink signature to the half-title dated 1937, a very good copy. Inquire | Order $17.50

9. Dickerson, Roy E.

Growing into Manhood. New York: Association Press, 1933. 1st Edition, 1st printing. vii+[3]+100+[2]pp. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very good ex-library copy with the usual markings in very good pictorial du st jacket. Sex education manual for pubescent boys. Inquire | Order $12.50

10. Fielding, William J[ohn] (born 1886).

Sanity in Sex. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. Later printing. [First published 1920]. [xviii]+333+[1]pp. 12mo. Printed green cloth. Neatly scored throughout in red ink and with a few marginal not es, a good reading copy. Mostly devoted to sex education and sexual hygiene with a chapter on venereal disease in the AEF. Inquire | Order $7.55

11. Galloway, Thomas W.

Sex and Social Health: A Manual for the Study of Social Hygiene. New York: Published by The American Social Hygiene Association, [1924]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. viii+360pp. 8vo. Printed green cloth. A few page corners c urled and chipped, else a very good copy. Smith Ely Jelliffe's copy with his bookplate and autopen signature to the title-page. Inquire | Order $30.00

12. Hartman, Carl (born 1928).

Sexual Expression: A Manual for Trainers. Drawings by Liam Callaghan. In collaboration with Jane Quinn & Brenda Young. New York: Human Sciences Press, Inc., [1981]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 152pp. Square 4to. Prin ted maroon and tan card covers. A very good copy. Inquire | Order $6.95

13. Hoddan, Max (1894-1946).

Sex-Life in Europe: A Biological and Sociological Survey. Translation by J[erome] Gibbs of Geschlecht und Liebe in biologischer und gesellschaftlicher Beziehung (Berlin: Universitas, 1932). Newark [NJ]: J ulian Press, 1932. 1st Edition in English. 242+[14]pp. With six line drawings of male & female sex organs on the rectos of unnumbered cognate rear leaves. 8vo. Printed blue cloth with painted red spine and front labels. Endpapers darkened, very good with light shelfwear. Hoddan was a Berlin physician, sex researcher, and anarchist -- part of the efflorescent glory of Weimar Germany. Inquire | Order $17.50

14. Hood, Mary G[ould] (born 1850).

For Girls and the Mothers of Girls: A Book for the Home and the School concerning the Beginnings of Life. Introduction by Sarah Louise Arnold. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1914]. 1st Edi tion, 1st printing. [10]+156+[2]pp. + 4 half-tones. 12mo. Printed green cloth with gilt lettering. Front flyleaf excised, else a good to very good copy with some shelfwear and rubbing to the edges. Inquire | Order $6.75

15. Jensen, Gordon D.

Youth and Sex: Pleasure and Responsibility. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, [1973]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. xi+[1]+156pp. 8vo. Tangerine boards with iridiscent red spine lettering and gold endpapers. A very good ex-library copy wit h the usual markings. Inquire | Order $18.95

16. Kirkendall, Lester A[llen] (born 1903).

Sex Adjustments of Young Men. New York/London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1940]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [xvi]+215+[1]pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth. A very good copy. Inquire | Order $7.85

17. Laton, Anita D. & Bailey, Edna W.

Suggestions for Teaching Selected Material from the Field of Sex Responsiveness and Reproduction. The Science in Modern Living Series Monograph 2. New York: Bureau of Publications Teachers College, Columbia U niversity, 1940. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [xviii]+118pp. Thin 8vo. Printed gray wrappers. Chip to right edge of front cover and half-title, else a very good copy. Inquire | Order $25.00

18. Lerrigo, Marion & Southard, Helen.

Learning About Love: Sound Facts and Healthy Attitudes Toward Sex and Marriage. In Consultation with Milton J. E. Senn. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1956. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 64pp. Text illustr ations and marginal decorations. Small 8vo. Printed gray cloth with blue-green labels. A very good ex-library copy with the usual markings. Inquire | Order $7.65

19. Lewin, S. A. & Gilmore, John.

Sex Without Fear. New York: Medical Research Press, [1956]. 12th printing. [First published 1950]. [ii]+121+[5]pp. Plates included in the pagination. 12mo. Printed red cloth. A very good copy. Inquire | Order $7.51

20. Linnér, Birgitta (born 1920).

Sex and Society in Sweden. Photographs by Lennard Nilsson. In collaboration with Richard J. Litell. Preface by Lester A[llen] Kirkendall (born 1903). New York: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, [1967]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. xvii+[3]+204pp. Photographic text illustrations. 8vo. Patterned green cloth with white linen spine with gilt lettering. A very good copy in lightly worn and price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Originally trained as a lawyer wi th a law degree from the University of Lund, Linnér subsequently became interested in issues of family life and conflict. From 1951 she had served as a family counselor at the Stockholm Family Counsesling Bureau. She authored and co-authored sex educatio n and family-life education textbooks for teenagers and young adults; lectured for a number of years on family life education at the School for Home Economics in Uppsala; served as a member of the Swedish Royal Commission on the "Fackskolan" (a type of s econdary school); served as an advisor to the National Board of Education in matters relating to family life education. Written in English for an American audience, Sex and Society in Sweden attempted to explain both the facts of and the soc iopolitical rationale behind Sweden's (then) much more sexually open and permissive society. Inquire | Order $5 .95

21. Lowry, E[dith] B[elle] (1878-1945).

False Modesty That Protects Vice by Ignorance. Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [3]-110+[4]pp. 12mo. Printed brown cloth with dark brown lettering. Cloth somewhat dust-soiled, els e a very good copy with library bookplate and rubber stamp to the title-page and last leaf of text. Written for parents and other adults in positions of responsibility with regard to children and adolescents, Lowry's book advocates instruction for youngs ter in sexual matters. Inquire | Order $25.00

22. Powers, G. Pat & Baskin, Wade.

Sex Education: Issues and Directives. New York: Philosophical Library, [1969]. x+532+[2]pp. 8vo. Cloth. A very good copy in dust jacket. Inquire | Order $13.95

23. Robie, Walter Franklin (1866-1928).

Sex and Life: What the Experienced Should Teach and What the Inexperienced Should Learn. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, [1920]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 424pp. 8vo. Straight-grained panelled green cloth with gilt spine lettering and embossed front device. Shaken, spine dull, a good ex-library copy. Contains a 56 page sexual autobiography by a correspondent of Robie's; sections on rational sex ethics for parents, for young men, young women, and for married people. Inquire | Order $8.95

24. Robie, Walter Franklin.

Sex and Life. Ithaca, New York: Rational Life Publishing Co., Inc., [1924]. Later Edition. [First published 1920 in Boston by Badger]. [viii]+424pp. 8vo. Cloth. A very good copy. Contains a 56 page sexual autobiography by a correspondent of Robie's; sections on rational sex ethics for parents, for young men, young women, and for married people. Inquire | Order $8.95

25. Rodman, Hyman & Trost, Jan, eds.

The Adolescent Dilemma: International Perspectives on the Family Planning Rights of Minors. New York: Praeger, [1986]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. x+260+[2]pp. 8vo. Pebbled crimson boards with painted black lab els. A very good copy. Inquire | Order $26.95

26. Saltman, Jules, ed.

Teen Love, Teen Marriage. By Ruth L. Butcher, Algernon D. Black, Ralph G. Eckert, Marion O. Robinson, Paul H. Landis, Lester A. Kirkendall [The Public Affairs Committee]. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1966]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. [2]+156+[2]pp. 8vo. Green cloth with white spine lettering. Very good in edgeworn and price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Inquire | Order $5.00

27. Schiller, Patricia.

Creative Approach to Sex Education and Counseling. Foreword by David R. Mace. New York: Association Press, [1973]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 255+[1]pp. 8vo. Orange cloth. A very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Presenta tion copy. Inquire | Order $8.95

28. Seruya, Flora C., et al.

Sex and Sex Education: A Bibliography. New York/London: R. R. Bowker Company, A Xerox Education Company, [1972]. 1st Edition, 1st printing. xiii+[1]+336+[2]pp. 8vo. Printed gold cloth with white and yellow lettering, and gold endpapers. A very good ex-library copy with the usual markings. Inquire | Order $8.95

29. Tenenbaum, Joseph (born 1887).

Sex Happiness in Marriage: Up-To-date Answers to the Riddle of Sex. De Luxe Edition. [Introduction by Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968)]. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Co., Publishers, [1945]. 1st Edition by this publisher. [First published in 1929 by The Macaulay Company in New York as The Riddle of Sex: the Medical and Social Aspects of Sex, Love, and Marriage.] xix+[1]+362pp. 8vo. Printed orange cloth with painted black spine & front labels. A very good cop y. A popular period sex manual, republished three times in the 1930s in New York and with two English editions -- all with the original title. Inquire | Order $12.50

30. Trall, R[ussell] T[hacher] (1812-1877).

Sexual Physiology and Hygiene: an Exposition Practical, Scientific, Moral, and Popular, of Some of the Fundamental Problems in Sociology. Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison / London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton , Kent & Co, 1908. Scottish Edition, Later printing. [First published in New York in 1866; first Scottish edition 1891.] 266+[2]pp. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Endpapers darkened and sheets browned, else a very good copy. A widely read and long-lived period sex manual by an American physician whose numerous writings on popular health, ranging from hydropathy to home manuals for curing masturbation, were influential both in the United States and Great Britain. Trall argues for "the right of a woman to her own person" and "absolute supremacy in the sexual relation" and for a woman's right to enjoy sexual intercourse as an act of love rather than just procreation (ch. 12) [Adapted from Atwater]. Atwater Collection #3586 (1st edition). < A HREF="mailto:inquiry@gach.com"> Inquire | Order $15.00

31. Willson, Robert N[ewton] (born 1873).

The Education of the Young in Sex Hygiene: a Textbook for Parents and Teachers. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1917. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 319+[1]pp. 56 inserted half-tones + folding chart of st ate prostitution laws. 17 text illustrations. 8vo. Printed paneled maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Upper front corner worn, else a very good, lightly marked ex-library copy with embossed title-page stamp and whited spine call number. Uncommon. Willson was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and Director (with Dr. William E. Hughes) of the Philadelphia Hospital Postgraduate Course in Internal Medicine. With Smith Ely Jelliffe's bookplate. Inquir e | Order $37.95