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1936. First Edition Thus. 521 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Seller Inventory # 1726480795ALK
Title: Medical History of Contraception
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Publication Date: 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Neuchatel, NEUCH, Switzerland
Reprint. 8vo. liii, [1], 521, [1] pp. 27 figs., index; pages 327-332 damaged at head & creased (no text loss). Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Good. First issued in 1936. Norman Edwin Himes, Harvard educated, was an American sociologist and economist and Professor at Colgate University, known for his work on the medical history of contraception. Alan F. Guttmacher has contributed additions to the original text. Garrison and Morton 1662. Seller Inventory # M14427
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Antikvariat Faust, Göteborg, Sweden
Gamut Press, New York 1963. liii, 521 pp. Publisher's cloth, no jacket. Fine condition. Seller Inventory # 56923
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Good +. 521 pp, indexes, extensive bibliography. Wraps rubbed, edge and corner wear. Top corner half-title page clipped, interior unmarked. Spine straight, faintly creased. Seller Inventory # 043926
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Good, tight copy. Minor spotting to outside top and side paper edges. Seller Inventory # R7310
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
8vo, original cloth, [liv], 521pp. Crude illustrations. A decent, useable copy of this reprint of the original 1936 edition. Seller Inventory # C148/8
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Duodecimo. blue cloth, orange label on the spine, yellow lettering, no dust jacket, 521 pp spine slightly cocked covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Seller Inventory # 102988
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
8vo, cloth, dj, [xxxi], 521, ii pp. A sturdy, reading copy of this standard, useful work of historical scholarship, which, unfortunately, was exposed to heat or fire damange: the binding perimeters are darkened, as are the page edges. The dust jacket did not suffer a similar fate. First Edition. Seller Inventory # C139/038
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Seller: Book Happy Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 521pp; Covers clean with very slight creasing, pages age-toned, remainder mark to bottom edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Medical history of contraception. Medical Foreword by Robert Latou Dickinson, M.D. Preface by Christopher Tietze, M.D. Illustrated. Seller Inventory # 016530
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Seller: ODYSSEY, Pointe Claire, QC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Thus. Type: Book 521 pp., midnight blue cloth bdg. with gold-stamped titling in red box on spine. Illustrated throughout with in text b/w diagrams, facsimiles, figures and tables. Renowned classic history of contraception that gathers relevant material on virtually every known culture and presented in an exhaustive manner, a survey of contraceptive usages of societies from 1850 B.C. to 1935 A.D. at which point new methods of population control began to emerge. The introduction does provide an account of major developments since. (light shelf wear, paper slightly yellowed at edges, small inscription on inner front board, very clean and tight copy)DJ(chipped along edges and corners, spine and edges slightly yellowed & soiled)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request. Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY. Seller Inventory # 871H
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Peter Oldenburg (Cover Design) (illustrator). 521 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on bottom edge. Seller Inventory # 4iiiFg0021
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