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New York City, American Birth Control League, 1926. Paperback. First edition. Original brown paper wrappers. 8vo. 63 pages; 22 cm. A humorous book aimed at garnering support for contraception. Floyd Dell "was an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet...Dell wrote extensively on controversial social issues of the early 20th century, and played a major part in the political and social movements originating in New York City's Greenwich Village during the 1910s & 1920s. As editor of the left-wing magazine The Masses, Dell was twice put on trial for publishing subversive literature" (Wikipedia, 2016) . Divided into 7 parts with smaller divisions within each with titles such as "Mating Under the Microscope, " "Preventing Children by Marriage, " and "The Harem of One. " Dell wrote mostly in question and answer style, with fictional witnesses on the stand or couples answering scientists' questions. "Q. Do you regard the meals you eat together as a matter of…
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by Dell, Floyd, with an introduction by E. S. P. Haynes
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The Outline of Marriage
by Dell, Floyd, with an introduction by E. S. P. Haynes
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London: The Richards Press Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. 104p., introduction, mild foxing to text-block, spine slightly sloped else very good first UK edition in orange cloth boards, errata slip bound-in. Originally published in the US in 1926 serially in "Birth Control review" and by American Birth Control League in association with Margaret Sanger in paperback. This first UK edition is the first edition that includes the introduction by Haynes who was a Rationalist Atheist, lawyer and advocate of homosexual rights. Fourteen holdings of this edition located in OCLC as of 5/2021.
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- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1927
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THE OUTLINE OF MARRIAGE
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The Outline of Marriage
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New York: The American Birth Control League, 1926. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 63, [1]pp. Printed brown wrappers. Dampstain tidemark in upper right corner barely touching any text, else a sound and very good copy. Dell, a Greenwich Village Bohemian, lends his wit to supporting the modern birth control movement.
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