STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX; 4 Volumes

Ellis, Havelock

Editore: Random House, New York, 1936

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xxxix+353pp.+xi+391pp.+x+539pp.+xvi+ 750pp., foreword by Morris L. Ernst, preface, index of authors, index of subjects. Part 1, The evolution of modesty; the phenomena of sexual periodicity; and Auto-erotism; Part 2, Analysis of the sexual impulse; Love and p[ain; and the sexual impulse in women," 353 pp.; ---v2, "Part 1, Sexual selection in man; and Part 2, Sexual inversion," 391 pp.;" ---v3, "Part 1, Erotic symbolism; the Mechanism of Detumescence; the Psychic state in pregnancy; and Part 2, Eonism and other supplementary studies," 539 pp.; ---v4, "Sex in relation to society," 750 pp.; ---[FOREWORD: The late Victorian decency wave, which got a running start with the criminal prosecution of Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads in 1866 and gathered momentum with the long battle of the English censors against Henry Vizetelly, publisher of Zola's novels in English---Vizetelly, a man of seventy and ill, went to jail for three months---reached its climax in 1898 in the proceedings against Havelock Ellis' Studies in the Psychology of sex. Curiously enough, Ellis himself was not molested. George Bedborough, Editor of the Adult Review, was arrested for selling the work. He received a suspended sentence.] Exlibris Neva Wills, with her bookplate in each volume, 'Four volume set 1936' noted in ballpoint on each ffep. Please note: Oversized volume: this book will require additional shipping for destinations outside the US; we will ship at cost. Cloth . Light shelfwear; some minor rubbing and fading to spines. Very good in wooden box; a few scratches to box.

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• Titolo: STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX; 4 Volumes
• Editore: Random House, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1936
• Rilegatura: Rilegato