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Vogue (81 issues bound in 14 volumes)

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Title: Vogue (81 issues bound in 14 volumes)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Description: New York: Condé Nast, 1921. First edition. Folio. 81 issues of Vogue bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Fifty-Four of the eighty-one issues have front covers present and forty-nine have back covers present. All but three of the fifty-four front covers have a small rubber stamp indicating they are from the "MGM Research Dept." and "Woburn Public Library." Though the cover images are (with a few exceptions of closed tears or soiling) complete, many lack the top or bottom borders that contained the "Vogue" title or other information relative to the Volume number or issue date, and contain MGM or Woburn stamps and dates. Note: This run of Vogue magazine from 1/1/1916 to 12/15/21, which should consist of 124 issues, lacks 43 issues as noted below: (10/1/16 to 12/15/16; 4/1/18 to 6/15/18; entire year of 1919; 1/1/20-1/15/20; 5/15/20-6/1/20; 7/15/20; 8/15/20; 9/15/20-11/15/20; 1/1/21; 3/15/21-4/1/21; 6/15/21-7/1/21). Jan. 1, 1916: masthead (1 1/2") missing at top front cover; title and date jotted down on bound-in blank paper with ballpen; small chip at foredge of front cover; pages 90-100 with small closed tear at middle of foredge. Jan. 15, 1916: Front cover missing, bound in blank paper with pencil note "Vogue January 15, 1916" bound in; page 3/4 with closed tear from center at bottom to middle of page; back cover missing. Feb. 1, 1916: Masthead missing as in Jan. 1st issue. Medium chip at bottom edge near spine; blank page bound in as above; Feb. 15: Millinery number of Vogue, Vogue and small rectangle at bottom near spine cut; blank paper bound in; page one with date in ballpoint pen. March 1, 1916: cuts on front cover as in previous issue. March 15, 1916: Quarter inch strip at top with Vogue... and small rectangel as in previous issue cut out; small library time sheet bound in befor title page; Title and date penciled to top of page 1. Artists represented on the 54 covers present are: Anonymous (1) Avery (1) Irma Campbell (1) Dryden (17) Finley (1) Lepape (5) Leyendecker (1) Little (5) Locker (1) Luza (1) Meserole (2) Morris (1) Plank (10) Platt (1) Saalburg (1) Senger (3) Steinmetz (1) Thurlow (1).

Conjugium Languens: Or, The Natural, Civil, and Religious Mischiefs Arising from Conjugal Infidelity and Impunity by Castamore

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Title: Conjugium Languens: Or, The Natural, Civil, and Religious Mischiefs Arising from Conjugal Infidelity and Impunity
Author: Castamore
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: R. Roberts, 1700. First edition. Rebound in modern drab boards with facsimile of title page to front cover. Measuring 190 x 135mm and collating [2], 28: bound without rear blank, else complete. Discreet marginal blindstamps of Wigan Free Public Library to the first two leaves, and final leaf Small hole to outer margin of pages 1-2 not affecting text; gutters of leaves A2 and A3 archivally strengthened. A clean copy internally, with the only markings being a contemporary effacement of Charles II's initials to page 19. A scarce work institutionally and in trade, ESTC reports copies at only 9 U.S. libraries. The most recent copy to appear at auction was the present one, in 1948; prior to that, the only copies appearing in the auction record are dated 1933, 1930, and 1903. A predecessor to Daniel Defoe's infamous treatise Conjugal Lewdness: Or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727), Castamore's Conjugium Languens tackles questions of marital infidelity that are more systemic than individual. At the time of publication, Canon Law prevailed in England, which meant that "marriages could easily be entered into, but divorce was obtainable only by an Act of Parliament" (Smith). The number of undesirable clandestine marriages among young people and marriages designed and enforced by families rather than the couples themselves combined to generate a large population of people dissatisfied at best and abused or miserable at worst in their unions. Without the option of legal divorce, infidelity was widespread. For Castamore, there is a simple solution which the government should undertake to preserve the sanctity of existing marriages as well as to ensure the purity of the resulting lines of inheritance: new laws "as might render Divorces less chargeable and difficult than they now are." Among the forms of infidelity rampant during the period was engagement in or with the sex trade. Difficult to document due to the variety of forms it could take, sex work offered many women and queer people options for supplementing existing income or finding lucrative full time employment. "Although London police reports recorded there to be approximately 8,600 prostitutes known to them, it has been suggested that the true number during this time was closer to 80,000" (Rogers). The rising celebrity of courtesans during this period provided men like those Castamore discusses with not only the possibility but also a glamorous fantasy of participating in sex outside their marriages -- sex that was not limited to the procreative unions sanctioned in sacrament. Meanwhile, women might perform sex work formally as courtesans or in a brothel; but more often, the work was informal and resembled the type of infidelity (here, infidelity for pay) that Castamore fears. It is upon women, the faces of the trade, that Castamore places blame. Pushing against anti-feminist notions of weak feminine virtue being susceptible to "the Importunities of Men," he takes an alternative misogynist approach by blaming women for those attacks and accusing them of harboring "a Treacherous Passion to yield Amorous Glances and Insinuations." Women, like imperialised nations, he asserts, ask for their own domination. It is a notion that the most famed courtesans would go on to combat further into the century, developing the genre of the Scandalous Memoir to expose how the assaults of men led so many of them into the trade. Wildly conservative and yet progressive in its assertion that the dissolution of marriage should be possible, Conjugium Languens laid the groundwork for future tracts on marriage and sexuality that helped move these unions out of Church control and into the realm of secular law. Register of Erotic Books 758.

Revolutionary Workers' League

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Title: Revolutionary Workers' League
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: 57 pp. mimeographed booklet, not illustrated. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Original stapled self-wrappers. Some light soiling and age-toning along edges, a few small tears to back cover which is loose and around one of the staples at front, old staples removed and replaced, internally clean, overall very good. Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., 1939. The Revolutionary Workers League, or RWL, was a radical leftist group founded in the United States in 1935, which was active through 1946. It was led by trade unionist Hugo Oehler and published a newspaper called The Fighting Worker. Its origins were within the Workers Party of the United States, and became an independent faction when Oehler and others opposed merging with the Socialist Party of America. This program is one of numerous booklets and pamphlets published by the RWL during their short life. It articulates the ideology of the RWL, including its Marxist and anti-Stalinist as well as anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist viewpoints. The RWL also supported the Spanish Republic as well as the Black working class in America. And although they were critical of Stalinism, the RWL stated that the working class should support the USSR in the event of war. The opening statement calls this booklet a "Draft Program" which is "submitted by the Political Committe of the Revolutionary Workers League U.S. It is the result of more than 2 years work. The 2nd Convention of the organization in Chicago December 1937 accepted the outline for this document. Since then a special committee of the Central Committee has worked on the document. In its present form it is still subject to the final approval of the Central Committee and membership...The Program is an International Program which gives special consideration to the problems of the working class under American Imperialism. It is not in its present form a specific U.S. program, although American Imperialism is dealt with at some length not only because the R.W.L. is located in the United States, but because of the importance of the U.S. in world politics." The various chapter headings are as follows: "World Capitalism - Its Growth and Decay"; "Wars and Revolutions"; "Capitalist Agents in the Ranks of the Working Class"; "The Communist Fourth International"; "The Social Revolution"; "Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle"; "The Revolution in the United States"; and "The Transformation of Society". This booklet was published in January 1939, just nine months before the outbreak of World War II. Very scarce; as of February 2026, OCLC locates four holdings in North America of a similar but not identical item, titled "Draft Program of the Revolutionary Workers League of the United States", with similar pagination (60 pp.), and only one holding of this particular title with the same pagination.

Let Me Die A Woman: The Why And How of Sex-Change Operations" 1978 First Edition Pulp on the Male-to-Female Transgender Experience by M.J. Lukas; Transgender

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Title: Let Me Die A Woman: The Why And How of Sex-Change Operations" 1978 First Edition Pulp on the Male-to-Female Transgender Experience
Author: M.J. Lukas; Transgender
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1978. [Transgender] Lukas, M.J. Let Me Die A Woman, the 1978 companion volume to Doris Wishman's semidocumentary exploitation film of the same name. This book put to print the film's exploration of male-to-female transgender experience, combining medical explanation, surgical discussion, and autobiographical case histories. The volume centers the work of Dr. Leo Wollman, identified in the foreword as physician, surgeon, psychologist, minister, medical writer, and scientific adviser to the film, and presents gender transition through the clinical language then prevalent in American sexology. Chapters including "Crossed Wires: The Puzzle of Gender Identity," "Between Worlds: The Tortured Transsexual," "The Problem of Self-Hatred: 'That Thing Between My Legs,'" and "Under the Knife: The Surgeon Rebuilds" explain the prevailing assumptions, therapeutic models, and social attitudes surrounding transgender identity during the late 1970s. First-person "Life Story" narratives trace subjects from childhood gender dysphoria through hormone treatment and surgery, documenting how transition was presented to a popular audience during a period when public understanding remained largely mediated through medical authorities, sensational journalism, and exploitation cinema. Lukas, M.J. Let Me Die a Woman: The Why and How of Sex-Change Operations. New York: Rearguard Productions, 1978. The text opens with a foreword crediting Wollman as a pioneer in the study and treatment of transsexual patients and states that much of the book's scientific content derived from consultations with him. The table of contents lists ten chapters interspersed with five autobiographical case studies, including "My Husband Is My Wife!," "Help Me! Help Me!," "In Limbo," "Adam Or Eve!," and "And So They Lived Happily Ever After." A preliminary leaf reproduces a portrait captioned, "Leslie, born a male and now feminine in every way," while the rear cover identifies Leslie as one of the film's featured subjects and summarizes her transition through hormone therapy and surgery. The contents page further notes photographic illustrations from the motion picture Let Me Die a Woman and anatomical drawings by William Jaber. This book was published in the aftermath of the sexual revolution and post-Stonewall LGBTQ activism, when publishers, sex educators, physicians, and exploitation filmmakers all contributed to public understanding of gender transition. Released the same year as Wishman's film, it contains both genuine, compassionate explorations of gender and lurid, exploitative rhetoric, preserving language and frameworks of the 70s that would soon be challenged by changing medical standards and transgender advocacy. A contemporaneous account of transgender experience in the 1970s presented to a general readership. Moderate rubbing and edge wear to wrappers; light toning to text block; binding sound. Overall very good condition.

The Best of Surf Mania [Poster].

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Title: The Best of Surf Mania [Poster].
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: Offset blue, black and red ink on commercial stock. Very good, corners browned from old tape. [592]

Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, Held in Trinity Church, New York, October 5th and 6th A.D. 1813 by [Protestant Episcopal Church of New York]

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Title: Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, Held in Trinity Church, New York, October 5th and 6th A.D. 1813
Author: [Protestant Episcopal Church of New York]
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: NY: T. and J. Swords, 1812. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 29pp. Chipped, tidemark to lower corner, else a good example bound by a single stitch.

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