Havelock Ellis: A Biography
by Grosskurth, Phyllis
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0394501500
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501505
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About This Item
Havelock Ellis: A Biography, Grosskurth Phyllis. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 492pp., illustrated, bibliography, index. Quarter black cloth over brown boards; gilt titles. Contents are in fine, unmarked condition with a small red mark to outer lower edge; unclipped jacket has moderate shelf wear.
The first full-scale biography of the complex figure whose pioneering studies of sexuality heralded the beginning of the modern attitude toward sexuality.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4873
- Title
- Havelock Ellis: A Biography
- Author
- Grosskurth, Phyllis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394501500
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501505
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEMOIR AND BIO;
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