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Woman And The New Race; With A Preface By Havelock Ellis
by Sanger, Margaret
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1920. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Margaret Sanger's first published book, Woman and the New Race.. Octavo, xi, [3], 234pp. Red cloth, title stamped in black on front cover and spine. Top edge dyed blue, which is faded. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, a touch of sunning to edges and spine, a near fine example. Includes a frontispiece portrait. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, small dampstain to front cover, tape repair to verso, sunning to spine, chipping to edges. A landmark piece contributing to the fight for reproductive rights. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a lifelong advocate for birth control, a term she popularized. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and laid the foundation for organizations such as Planned Parenthood. Woman and the New Race was her first published book.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12972
- Title
- Woman And The New Race; With A Preface By Havelock Ellis
- Author
- Sanger, Margaret
- Illustrator
- First edition of Margaret Sanger's first published book, Woman and the New Race.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Brentano's Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- first edition My Fight for Birth Control, first edition Margaret Sanger, signed book Margaret Sanger, The Margaret Sanger Story Lader, Margaret Sanger An Autobiography, Women and the New Race Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage Sanger, Family limitation sa
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
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