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THE THREE MARIAS: New Portuguese Letters.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The explosive book, about the passions and compassions of women, that resulted in the controversial trial, and became an international sensation." When this book was published in Portugal 1972, its three authors were arrested and the books were seized as "outrage to public decency." After the charges were dropped in 1974, this has become an important part of the fight for women's rights. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. Includes a translator's preface, authors' afterword and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-385-018533.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some chipping and wear to the ends of the spine.)
Book ID: 52432More details Price: $20.00 -
THE THREE MARIAS: New Portuguese Letters.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The explosive book, about the passions and compassions of women, that resulted in the controversial trial, and became an international sensation." When this book was published in Portugal 1972, its three authors were arrested and the books were seized as "outrage to public decency." After the charges were dropped in 1974, this has become an important part of the fight for women's rights. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. Includes a translator's preface, authors' afterword and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-385-018533.
Condition: Just about fine in a near fine dust jacket (short closed tear, a bit of sunning to dj spine.)
Book ID: 52872More details Price: $28.00 -
THE INNER CIRCLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A fascinating, fictional rendering of what life might have been like doing research for infamous sex professor Alfred Kinsey." 418 pp. ISBN: 0-14-303586x.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43557More details Price: $28.00 -
IMMODEST ACTS : The Life of Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical study based on original documents about the investigation in 1619 to 1623 and the subsequent trial of "Sister Benedetta Carlini of Vellano, abbess of the Theatine nuns of Pescia [near Florence, Italy], who pretended to be a mystic but was discovered to be a woman on ill repute." A title in the Studies in the History of Sexuality series. Includes an appendix with translations of the original documents, notes, index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-195036751.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 32458More details Price: $18.00 -
MAN AND WOMAN: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters.
Edition: First thus- first American edition.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A largely rewritten work, originally published in 1894 and now brought up to date, by this English physician, writer, and social reformer who was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality. Index. vii, 495 pp.
Condition: Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, no dj.
Book ID: 80860More details Price: $15.00 -
CATALYST: A Novel of Alien Contact.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - A boy, fleeing a bullying classmate, inadvertently makes first contact with a race of aliens who live beneath the surface of his planet. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 1892391384.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53948More details Price: $20.00 -
THE COST OF LOVING: Woman and the New Fear of Intimacy.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Putnam, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interviews and insights of women from different backgrounds - discusses feminism, professional, self-fulfillment and sexual liberation and the definition of each to these women. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-399-12859.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61341More details Price: $16.50 -
LOVE AND WILL.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Norton, (1969._ dj. Hardcover - The psychotherapist's landmark study on modern love and sex. An important and influential book. Notes, index, 351 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010805.
Condition: Very good+ in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the dj)
Book ID: 58614More details Price: $14.50 -
RAINBOW BOYS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). First edition - His first novel - and the first book in his highly praised trilogy on what it means to be gay and young in America. 245 pp including 10 pp of information re resources for gay teenagers.
Condition: Fine in printed bright yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 50566More details Price: $25.00 -
THE STORY OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Argentina, in the time of the generals, this is both a suspense novel and a love story. Richard Garay is enabled by Falklands War to discard the "Britishness "he inherited from his mother and to take chances, both sexual and professional. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-52119.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59903More details Price: $45.00