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Heredity In Relation To Eugenics

by Charles Benedict Davenport

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[PUTNEY & ONEIDA COMMUNITY PERIODICALS] The Witness, The Perfectionist, The Perfectionist & Theocratic Watchman, The Spiritual Magazine, The Free Church Circular, The Circular, The Circular New Series, The Oneida Circular, The American Socialist

by [ONEIDA COMMUNITY] NOYES, John Humphrey; J. L. Skinner; Theodore L. Pitt

Oneida, NY, et al.: Oneida Community, 1839-1879. First Edition. The Perfectionist [vol. I nos 1&2 condensed]. New Haven, CT: 1835. Second edition. One folio issue (40cm), 4pp. Split along fold, with damage to margins, small spots of discoloration: Good. DARE 1517. The Witness [vol. I nos xx, xxii, xxv; vol. II nos ii, iv-vi, viii, xi-xii, xiv-xvi, xviii-xxi]. Putney, VT: 1839-1842. Seventeen individual issues (30cm), each 8pp. Some disbound, with sewing holes and remnants of thread, others never... Read more about this item

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£10,173.75

Hand--Book of the Oneida Community, 1875

by [ONEIDA COMMUNITY]

Oneida, NY: Office of Oneida Circular, 1875. Octavo (22cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet in printed tan paper wraps; 48pp; 3pp of publisher's ads at rear, with ad for the Oneida Circular to rear wrapper; errata slip to final page of advertisements. A fresh copy, with slight dirt to wraps: Very Good. An overview of the Oneida Community, a perfectionist communal society that lasted from 1848 to 1881, describing the Community's buildings and routines, financial habits, religious and social principles, and theories... Read more about this item

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£32.56

Male Continence, or Self-Control in Sexual Intercourse

by [ONEIDA COMMUNITY] NOYES, J[ohn] H[umphrey]

[n.p.]: [Oneida Community], 1866. First Edition. First printing. Pamphlet, 4pp. Gently rubbed, lightly toned at edges, with moderate water damage and mildew damage: Good only. A singular aspect of Noyes's Pefectionist philosophy, as practiced by his followers at Oneida, was the sanctification of the human sexual bond through the practice of "male continence," i.e. coitus reservatus, or the withholding of the male orgasm during intercourse. This pamphlet explains the practice in some detail, in the... Read more about this item

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£162.78

Social Service at the General Convention of 1934

by [EPISCOPAL CHURCH]

New York: National Council / Department of Christian Social Service, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed within double rule; 7pp. Some light wear from handling, occasional pencil check marks to margins, minor dust-soil, else Very Good. Among the resolutions discussed and adopted at the convention include the promotion of eugenics, the condemning lynching, and supporting the Motion Picture Research Council in its efforts "to correct the evils of the Motion Picture... Read more about this item

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£20.35

Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly", July, 1917

by [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] MILLER, Kelly

N.p.: [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917], 1917. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; [3]pp. Offprint. Wrapper edges soiled and briefly chipped along upper margin; perforations for binding at bound edge; Very Good. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction, unless reinforced from the... Read more about this item

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£203.48

Report of the Health of Children in the Oneida Community

by [ONEIDA] Noyes, T[heodore] R., M. D

Oneida, NY: [Oneida Community], 1878. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue coated paper wraps, printed on front and rear; 8pp; ad for The American Socialist to lower cover. Pages uniformly toned, spine lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. Statistical analysis of the sickness and mortality rates among the 50 living children born in the Oneida Community from 1869, as an argument in favor of the Community's stirpiculture practice (a method of planning births, and an early form of eugenics). DARE... Read more about this item

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£61.04

Male Continence;

by [ONEIDA] NOYES, John Humphrey

Oneida, NY: Office of Oneida Circular, 1872. First Thus. Second edition. Octavo (23cm). In printed blue paper wraps; 24pp; list of other Oneida publications to rear wrapper. Gently rubbed, staining to wrappers and first two leaves, else Very Good. A singular aspect of Noyes's Pefectionist philosophy, as practiced by his followers at Oneida, was the sanctification of the human sexual bond through the practice of "male continence," i.e. coitus reservatus, or the withholding of the male orgasm during... Read more about this item

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£122.08

La Cité Future: Essai d'une Utopie Scientifique

by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] [FRANCE] TARBOURIECH, Ernest

Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1902. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments, original wrappers bound in; [6],484pp. Boards very slightly rubbed, spine leather almost entirely toned to brown, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. At head of title: "Bibliothèque des Recherches Sociales - No. 7." Eugenicist utopian treatise by a leader of the French Socialist party and law professor at the Collège des Sciences Sociales. Based in part on Paolo... Read more about this item

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£305.21

Heredity and Politics

by Haldane, J. B. S

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. the edges of the pages are darkened and slightly aged, previous owner's name on the 1st page along with a rubberstamp from the original bookseller. The dustjacket which is slightly chipped at their head and tail of the spine and at each of the fold over tips, has been printed on reverse of another dustjacket (obviously a war austerity measure.) The 1st half of the book is mainly devoted to an exposition of the... Read more about this item

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£10.44

Life or Death - Who Controls?

by Ostheimer, Nancy C.; Ostheimer, John M. (Edited)

New York: Springer Publishing Company. 1976. Very Good condition. x, 308 pages. An anthology designed to provide an introductory treatment of life-and-death issues. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.