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The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study
by Dingwall, Eric John
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. First Edition. Paperback. This medical, historical, legal, and literary study of the chastity belt is the work of Eric John "Dirty Ding" Dingwall (1890-1986), a respected anthropologist, skeptical psychical investigator, and sexologist who earned his nickname from his research interests in erotica and sexual customs. Dingwall had an illustrious and diverse career, writing well-received treatises on male infibulation, artificial cranial deformation, sexual mores in ancient and medieval times, and women, as well as his investigations of well-known "paranormal" events and personages. A well-preserved first printing of this formative and foundational study of the history and mythology of the chastity belt, which, despite current scholarship's more sceptical view of the actual use of such items, remains in service today as a resource on the subject, illustrated throughout in ten informative and provocative plates.
6 1/2" X 5". 164pp, plus 4 pages index. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, showing a naked woman wearing a chastity belt from both anterior and posterior views, with light toning, crease to corner, very faint dust soiling, and light crease to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.
6 1/2" X 5". 164pp, plus 4 pages index. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, showing a naked woman wearing a chastity belt from both anterior and posterior views, with light toning, crease to corner, very faint dust soiling, and light crease to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9672
- Title
- The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study
- Author
- Dingwall, Eric John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Le Divan
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1923
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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