LOVE & DEATH by legman, g - first edition

New York: Breaking Point, 1949. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stiff red paper wraps with black printing. This copy is VG. Exterior has a couple of small rubs to upper front corner, modestly sunned spine, and a bit of a curl at page corners. Inside is unmarked and moderately toned. An examination of then current views of sadism and sexuality..

[New York]: Breaking Point, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. 95; original stiff red wrappers; light wear to extremities, small tape repair on front cover verso, small date stamp on upper corner of title page verso; else very good.

(New York): Breaking Point, 1949. First edition. Prints four essays intending to provoke debate. Very good or better with red at spine mellowed and rubbing along rear edge of spine.

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1963. Paperback in good condition. Second printing. Covers are marked and edge-worn. White paint stain on rear cover. Spine is creased. Spine head is nicked. Page block and some pages are marked and tanned. Light creases throughout pages. Binding is visible between a few pages but remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Paperback. Good. Used.

breaking point, first edition . 1949, very good softbound, splash marks in the upper left corner, some spine fading,

New York: Breaking Point,, 1949. Paperback . Very Good. Covers slightly rubbed and faded, otherwise near very good indeed.

(New York): Breaking Point, 1949. First edition. 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red wrappers. Almost fine. First edition. 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A collection of four somewhat polemical essays arguing that sadism has been substituted for sexuality in American culture. An interesting book. Inscribed to Ashley Montagu on the title page, and with a TLS laid in.

[New York]: Breaking Point, 1949. First edition. 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red wrappers. VG. First edition. 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 1987 ALS from Kevin Le Fevre to Matthew Monahan about the book and J. Laughlin's intentions to publish it.

(New York): Breaking Point, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, hardcover issue, one of a very few hardbound copies intended for Legman's use and never offered for sale. Octavo. 95pp. About fine in lightly sunned very good or better dust jacket. Full-page Inscription from Legman to Alan Anderson, owner of the Tragara Press in Edinburgh, with Anderson's bookplate on front pastedown: "For Alan Anderson, Esq in all admiration of his bibliographical flair for what is hard to find, with the sincere compliments of G. Legman, Edinburgh, 3 June 1959, ten years later." The first edition of this pioneering monograph, which examines in Legman's combative style the curious social anomaly which allows unhindered in art the most graphic expression of violence, whilst equally graphic descriptions of sexuality are suppressed. Legman at first experienced great difficulty in finding a publisher for this work, and to prove the point a list of the over forty publishers who rejected it is appended to the… Read More