Cilento Phyllis (7 results)

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Book has minor smudging to boards along with moderate bumping to upper corners. Interior front board and front end paper have previous owners writing and stamping; several interior pages have notable creasing but text is clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

79pp. Foreword, preface and inde. The author has been in the medical practice for over 40 years. She presents information about birth control gained after a world wide tour of family planning clinics. This is the first book to discuss "the pill" in Australia. Lady Cilento is a well respected medical writer and broadcaster within Australia. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 110 pages. cover worn, some staining on a few pages.

22 cm. X, 222 pages Fine, near new condition.

paperback. Condition: Good-Very Good. Two issues August 1967 September 1968 of 'A Code for Teenagers and their Parents', produced by The Courier Mail; being a series of guidelines for decorum in behaviour and dress, based originally on the St. Louis Code, adapted for Australian conditions by Jean Cooper and Lady Phyllis Cilento (the latter addressing similar material at the time for The Courier Mail as 'The Medical Mother'); dating, dress, drinking, driving and drugs; 1967 with tanning to lower part front cover, and stain near spine, o.w. G-VG; 1968 with mild toning and foxing, mild vertical crease to front, o.w. G-VG. . 6pp/11pp. 2 volumes 8vo. Good-Very Good.

hardbound. Condition: G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper. b&w illustrations (illustrator). Lady Cilento's overview of available methods of birth control, being the first book published in Australia to discuss the pill, and also including chapters on the rhythm method, coitus interruptus, the sheath, douching, pessaries/creams and jellies, etc; b&w technical illustrations; Phyllis Cilento was an Australian medical practitioner controversial for her views on natural childbirth, contraception, abortion, and the presence of fathers at childbirth; bookshop label to front pastedown, former owner's name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, medium foxing to text block, o.w. G-VG; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, mild foxing, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 79pp. 8vo. G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper.