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	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". USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2873 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	Secrets for Women Only, By a Famous English Actress. Boston, Mass, A.B. Courtney. 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. Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 10283 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 166 \| £UK 151 \| JP¥ 21499] Book number: 5859 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 187.50 [Appr.: EURO 124.5 \| £UK 113.25 \| JP¥ 16124] Book number: 2881 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	CARPENTER, EDWARD Love's Coming-of-Age; A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes New York, Mitchell Kennerley. 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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2867 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2870 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	DULAURE, JACQUES-ANTOINE The Gods of Generation: A History of Phallic Cults Among Ancients & Moderns, Translated from the French By A.F.N. New York, The Panurge Press. 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. Very Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8374 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	ELLIS, HAVELOCK Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. 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. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 8363 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	KELLER, DAVID H. Sex and Society New York, N.Y. Roman Publishing Company. 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. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3863 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	KELLER, DAVID H. Sexual Diseases and Abnormalities of Adult Life New York, N.Y. Roman Publishing Company. 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. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3864 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2862 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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!". USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2865 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	LOUYS, PIERRE Ancient Manners; Complete and Integral Translation Into English Paris, Privately Printed. Patterned Cloth. Ill.: 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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 3865 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2879 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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 New York, Eugenics Publishing Company. (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. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 8383 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4085] Book number: 2871 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2864 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	MEAD, MARGARET Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Sutdy of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization...foreword By Franz Boas London, Jonathan Cape. First British Edition. (1929). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. No deust wrapper. Twelve illustration on eight pages, complete. 297 pages. Very Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8349 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6450] Book number: 2869 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	O'RELL, MAX Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty -- Cupid London, The Abbey Press. 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!". USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 3757 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2866 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4085] Book number: 2868 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	STILES, HENRY REED, M.D. Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America Mt. Vernon, New York, The Peter Pauper Press. 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. Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8224 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2872 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 2874 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.

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	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". USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2873 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	Secrets for Women Only, By a Famous English Actress. Boston, Mass, A.B. Courtney. 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. Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 10283 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 166 \| £UK 151 \| JP¥ 21499] Book number: 5859 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 187.50 [Appr.: EURO 124.5 \| £UK 113.25 \| JP¥ 16124] Book number: 2881 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	CARPENTER, EDWARD Love's Coming-of-Age; A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes New York, Mitchell Kennerley. 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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2867 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2870 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	DULAURE, JACQUES-ANTOINE The Gods of Generation: A History of Phallic Cults Among Ancients & Moderns, Translated from the French By A.F.N. New York, The Panurge Press. 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. Very Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8374 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	ELLIS, HAVELOCK Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. 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. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 8363 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	KELLER, DAVID H. Sex and Society New York, N.Y. Roman Publishing Company. 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. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3863 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	KELLER, DAVID H. Sexual Diseases and Abnormalities of Adult Life New York, N.Y. Roman Publishing Company. 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. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3864 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2862 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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!". USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2865 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	LOUYS, PIERRE Ancient Manners; Complete and Integral Translation Into English Paris, Privately Printed. Patterned Cloth. Ill.: 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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 3865 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2879 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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 New York, Eugenics Publishing Company. (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. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 8383 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4085] Book number: 2871 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2864 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	MEAD, MARGARET Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Sutdy of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization...foreword By Franz Boas London, Jonathan Cape. First British Edition. (1929). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. No deust wrapper. Twelve illustration on eight pages, complete. 297 pages. Very Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8349 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6450] Book number: 2869 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	O'RELL, MAX Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty -- Cupid London, The Abbey Press. 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!". USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 3757 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2866 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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". USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4085] Book number: 2868 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	STILES, HENRY REED, M.D. Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America Mt. Vernon, New York, The Peter Pauper Press. 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. Good. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8224 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3225] Book number: 2872 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.
	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. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 2874 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books.