A Dirty Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh

Chandrasekhar, Sripati

ISBN 10: 0520041682 / ISBN 13: 9780520041684

Published by U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr, 1981

About this Item

SIGNED on front free endpaper for a fellow professor at San Diego State University--visible in photo. Jacket has a 1/4 inch tear on front cover near top of spine--visible in photo. Book has foxing on text blocks and fore edge, and some faint foxing on endpapers--visible in photos. Interior content is fine.

Seller Inventory # 121-SC

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Dirty Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520041682
• ISBN 13: 9780520041684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

First edition. An account of the 1877 trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh for printing obscene material--a book on birth control by Charles Knowlton. Also reprints Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophyand two of Besant's pamphlets on birth control. Indexed. Some discoloration on dust jacket. xii, 218 pages, with 6 illustrations. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..