Äkta Makar; Ett Nytt Bidrag till De Sexuella Problemens Lösning (Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sexual Problems)
by Stopes, Marie
Stockholm: Hälsovännens Förlagsexpedition, 1929. 190p, wraps, tear at right upper spine, Swedish translation of Stopes' 1918 marriage manual Married Love.
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Married Love
by STOPES, Marie C.
New York: Eugenics, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later. Very good in good dust jacket. Browning of pages. Dustwrapper rubbed, fading, torn and worn along edges, spine, corners.
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PASSIONATE PARADOX,; the life of Marie Stopes
by [STOPES]. BRIANT, Keith
NY: Norton, 1962. First edn. 8vo, pp. 286. Illustrated. VG in dj. * Stopes was a Doctor of Science & Philosophy, a fellow of University College, London and founded the first scientific birth control clinic in England. She was the author of the best selling Married Love.
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MARRIED LOVE,; a new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties. authorized edition with an intro. by Dr. Jessie Murray
by STOPES, Marie C.
NY: Putnam, 1931. First US, from the 19th UK edition. 8vo, pp. 165. VG copy. A frank discussion of sex by the British doctor and birth control advocate. Stopes opened the first scientific birth control clinic in the UK.
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A LETTER TO WORKING MOTHERS; on how to have healthy children and avoid weakening pregnancies
by STOPES, Marie Carmichael
London: The Mother's Clinic from Constructive Birth Control, 1928. Sixth edition. 8vo, pp. 16. Bound in printed wraps, a very good tight copy. First issued in 1919. Eaton & Warnick 296. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, she founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love was controversial and influential: it brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse.... Read More
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Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties
by STOPES, Marie Carmichael
New York: Eugenics Publishing Co, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo. xviii, [2], 170pp. Publisher's purple cloth. Light toning at the edges of the free endpapers, an attractive, near fine copy concealed in a neat hand made paper wrapper french-folded over the covers and pinned snugly in place at the corners, spine head chipped.
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Wise Parenthood . .
by Stopes, Marie Carmichael
London: A.C. Fifield, 1918. First Edition. Very good -. 7 3/8” x 5 1/8”. Paper over boards. Pp. viii, 34. Very good minus: covers damp-stained, slightly warped and edge-worn; light foxing to front title label, prelims and a few pages' edge. This is the scarce first printing of a work on the status of birth control in the early 20th century, written by a pioneering female expert and advocate, Marie Carmichael Stopes. Born in... Read More
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CONTRACEPTION; (birth control). Its theory, history and practice, a manual for the medical and legal professions. With an introduction by Prof. Sir William Bayliss and introductory notes by Sir James Barr, MD ... and Dr. C. Rolleston, Dr. Jane Hawthorne & Obscurus
by STOPES, Marie Carmichael (1880-1958)
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielson, 1923. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 417 + 4 plates. Bound in fern green cloth with remnants of the dj laid in, end paper browned o/w a near fine copy. Eaton and Warnick 376. Scarce. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, she founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love was controversial and influential: it brought... Read More
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Manuscript Diaries of William Henry Upton, for the years 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877
by Upton, William Henry
Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. Four diaries kept by Upton as a young man, the first dates from when he was an 18 year old in Portland, Oregon, to 1877 when he graduated from Yale. Upton's diaries contain a frank account of his activities, attending... Read More
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Contraception (Birth Control). Its Theory, History and Practice. A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions
by Stopes, Marie Carmichael
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, 1923. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. Octavo. xxiii, [1], 418, [2] pp. Complete with four plates. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is very bright and clean aside from small smudge to upper board. Toning to endpapers at gutter. Neat contemporary underlining to a few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, a bit crinkled at edges. A bright, Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Dr. Marie... Read More
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Contraception
by STOPES Marie Carmichael
1923. First Edition. STOPES, Marie Carmichael. Contraception. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.First edition of the first British textbook on the theory, history, and provision of birth control by birth control advocate and sexologist Marie Stopes, the author of Married Love, in very scarce original dust jacket.""As a scientist, [Marie] Stopes is still a figure of some interest. Her major claim to fame, however, rests on her work as birth... Read More
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