Phyllis Cilento (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards show signs of wear. All pages intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

79pp. Foreword, preface and inde. The author has been in the medical practice for over 40 years. She presents information about birth control gained after a world wide tour of family planning clinics. This is the first book to discuss "the pill" in Australia. Lady Cilento is a well respected medical writer and broadcaster within Australia. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good.…

hardbound. Condition: G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper. Lady Cilento's overview of available methods of birth control, being the first book published in Australia to discuss the pill, and also including chapters on the rhythm method, coitus interruptus, the sheath, douching, pessaries/creams and jellies, etc; b&w technical illustrations; Phyllis Cilento was an Australian medical practitioner controversial for her views on natural childbirth, contraception, abortion, and the presence of fathers at childbirth; bookshop label to front pastedown, former owner's name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, medium foxing to text block, o.w. G-VG; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, mild foxing, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 79pp. 8vo. G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper. b&w illustrations (illustrator). …