Marriage Today and Tomorrow
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1929. Hardcover. Number 110 of 500 copies signed on the half-title page by the author. This first edition, written and signed by Havelock Ellis, was printed at the Grabhorn Press and published by The Westgate Press. Henry Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939) was an English physician, eugenecist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. Bound in orange paper covered boards with a black spine with titling in gilt. Covers show slightest discoloration aolong edges but still quite very good. Text pages are clean and bright. Previous owner Huntington Williams, a Baltimore public health commissioner for thirty years beginning in 1932, has both his written signature on first free endpaper and elaborate bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Pencil notation on free front endpaper appears to be 1938 bookseller price (3.00!).Inserted is the page from the bookseller's catalog (Chaucer Hear Book Shop) with the listing marked in ink. Original dust jacket present but in pieces. A nice copy of this relatively scarce book in very good condition. Measures 6.5 x 9.25 inches. 30 pages. PRI/090926. Very Good.
Item #38427
Price: $30.00