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Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since September 14, 2004
Dark red cloth with gilt titles on dark blue on spine. Some bumping of corners and spine ends. Some fading to edges of boards. Binding tight. No inscriptions. Some age discolouration. A nice copy. Seller Inventory # 22635
Title: Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female
Publisher: W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London
Publication Date: 1953
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
1st Ed. Large 8vo. xxx + 842pp. 155 figures, 179 tables. Light marginal age toning, ownership inscription, sl. shaken, good in sl. chipped d/w. Signed by 'Alfred C. Kinsey' to half title. US$111. Seller Inventory # 295342
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. An attractive collection complete in two first edition volumes of A. C. Kinsey et al.'s study on sexual behaviour both in human male and female. The first edition of this collection, comprised ofSexual Behaviour in the Human Male(1948, eighth impression), and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female(1953). Led by professors and researchers Alfred C. Kinsey, Clyde E. Martin, and Wardell B. Pomeroy, with the contribution of other assistants.This is Kinsey's most well known work, also known as the 'Kinsey Reports.' These volumes observe human sexual behaviour and were immediately controversial both within the scientific community and the general public as they challenged the conventional view on sexuality and discuss topics that were considered taboo at the time. It is regardless considered pioneering and some of the most well known research at the time.Both volumes are illustrated with numerous charts, tables and diagrams in text. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. With some minor creasing to the cloth of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With only a faint minor spotting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Both volumes are illustrated with numerous charts, tables and diagrams in text. Very Good Indeed. book. Seller Inventory # 785A47
Quantity: 1 available