Contraception Theory History Practice Manual by Stopes Marie Carmichael (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding is solid, but with slight forward tilt. Pages unmarked but a little tanned. Cover is soiled and has some wear at edges. No dustjacket.

Condition: Good. 1934. Fourth Edition; Revised. 487 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with moderate foxing. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild bubbling to pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Light insect damage to front board. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition, 2nd printing (a new and enlarged edition). xxviii, 488pp, plus 8pp of plate illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rounded on corners on spine ends. Upper text block edge darkly spotted remaining edges spotted. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and torn dust wrapper, with minor loss around upper leading corner and spine head, lightly browned with a hint of spotting.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th. 487 p. 22 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Clean, unmarked pages. 10 full-page plates. Ships daily.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. new and enlarged edition, green cloth, spine gilt faded, text clean and sound. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. The dust jacket is torn, chipped with some parts missing, marked. The boards are edge worn, cocked, marked. Tanning, creased, minor handling marks. Aside from this, it is still in good condition, excellent binding and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

xxvi+480pp. 8vo. Original cloth in defective dustwrapper. Bookseller stamp on title page, otherwise a very good, tight copy.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1923. Very good in the publisher's tooled black leather; hubbed spine; page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; permanent silk ribbon page marker.

New and enlarged edition hard back binding in publisher's original olive cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 480 [v illustrated plates] printed pages of text. Damp stain to the rear board, spine ends turned-in with shallow rubs, feint tan age spots to the end papers and closed page edges. Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow nicks and chips to the spine ends and corners, 15/- to the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. September 1929 reprint of the Second Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1100g.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1924 reprint of the 1st Edition. SPINE LETTERING IS DULL. Front end paper has a neat name. No other inscriptions. Clean & tight. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F96875. Contraception (birth control) its theory, history and practice: a manual for the medical and legal professions by Marie Carmichael Stopes. Published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. NO JACKET. Hardback. July 1924 reprint. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref C588. Contraception (birth control) Its Theory, History & Practice. A Manual for Medical & Legal Professions by Marie Carmichael Stopes. Published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson.

1929, 2nd edition, later printing. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 486pp. Photographs, index. The edges are lightly shelfworn and the spine is a little cocked. (Medicine, Birth Control, Contraception, Medicine).

New and enlarged edn. 8vo, pp. 480. + plates. A very good copy. With some photos and illustrations. Eaton and Warnick 383. (Called a reprint of their 2rd edn. Stopes and her husband opened the first scientific birth control clinic in the UK.

8vo, pp. xxiii, [i] blank, 418, [2]; with four photographic plates; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality, with some occasional light foxing and soiling in places, some toning to endpapers; in the original green publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little bumped, extremities and corners lightly rubbed, some light sunning to boards; overall a very good copy. Third impression, published the year after the first. At its publication Contraception was "widely held to be the most comprehensive volume on the subject ever published" (Exploring Women in Science Through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Duke University Libraries website). For the first edition see Eaton and Warnick 376; Garrison-Morton 1641.2; Heirs 2316.

New and enlarged edn. 8vo, Pp. 487. Name and some comments in pencil by the previous owner on the page with blurbs, o/w a very good copy. With some photos and illustrations. Eaton and Warnick 384. (Called their 3rd edn., with the Notes by Obscurus deleted). Stopes and her husband opened the first scientific birth control clinic in the UK.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Reprint. xxiii, 418, (2) pp. Original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Gilt lettering dulled. Boards clean. Internally clean. With four plates. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Sixth Edition - Revised and Enlarged (first published 1923). Hardback copy in brown cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket (30s net) in new removable protective clear sleeve.491pp. 9 b/w photographic plates to rear. Not library copy, no inscriptions, couple of small tears to top edge of rear dustjacket. (24/6).

5 plates. Cloth. xxvi+480pp. New & enlarged edn. Corners bumped. Edges foxed. Good.

Condition: Good. London 1923 2nd printing of 1st edition. Bale. Hardcover octavo. Chartreuse green cloth with gilt lettering. 418p., photo illustrations. Good Plus, rear inner hinge reinforced; barely visible inchlong closed cut in cloth on front cover edge. Text clean and binding secure; no owner marks. Good DJ.

Condition: Poor. Some fading and wear to the cover edges. The corners are slightly bent. Seems clean and readable inside with some foxing. The spine is loose from the textblock but remains readable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated 1st Edition, June 27th, 1923. Original green binding, gold titles. Introduction by Sir William Bayliss, Sir James Barr, Dr. C. Rolleston, Dr. Jane Hawthorne & Obscurus. 418 pages. 4 black/white photo plates. Very slight shelf wear. Internally spotless. A tight, straight, clean copy. Scan available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, third edition, pp, xxvii, 487, ten plates, gilt titled brown cloth, unclipped dust-jacket within a clear protective plastic cover, light age-toning. The first manual on the subject, this being a new edition greatly revised and enlarged with five more plates.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 460. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1923 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 460.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931, 3rd edition. Hardback, 8vo, xxvii,487pp, illust. Inscribed / signed by author ("To Professor Gregory F.R.S. with the regards of the author, Marie C. Stopes July 1931"), some foxing, edges a little spotted/stained. Original cloth, a little marked. A good copy. /0.8uk.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, COMPLETE WITH FOUR FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 23 + 420 PAGES. MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH A HOLE & TEARS TO FRONT OF JACKET, FEW MINOR MARKS & MINOR SCUFFS TO CLOTH COVER, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED, SMALL EARLY BOOKSELLERS LABEL TO INNER FRONT & REAR BOARDS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH NO INSCRIPTIONS & CLEAN INTERNALLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET MAY HAVE SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Near Fine octavo xxiii + 418pp., b/w pls., index, Minor wear to extremities o/w very nice, clean, tight copy. Loosely inserted 3 pamphlets : Birth Control Scientific advice to Married Women 8pp. ; Rubber goods price list 4pp. ; Poulton's pessary 2pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, second impression, 418pp, photographs, olive green boards, gilt titles, dustwrapper. In excellent condition, with a few marks to the boards and a touch of creasing and rubbing to the dustwrapper.