Contraception Theory Practice by Stopes Marie Carmichael (52 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, scuffs. Content is clean and has light toning. Some foxing to front/rear page. Toning to page ends. No DJ.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Edgeworn. 4th Revised and Enlarged. 487pp. b/w illustrations. FEP slightly browned. Dust jacket worn on edges. "The first manual on the subject; now fully revised, with new methods, data and illustrations.".

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: 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.

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. 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: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a bit bumped and worn. A little underlining. Mild tanning. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New and Enlarged Edition. 480 pages. 5 plates. A few marks on original green cloth and some very light foxing of fore-edges but a tight and bright copy.

HARDCOVER. Condition: NEAR FINE WITHOUT D.J. THIRD REPRINT, JULY 1924 / INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM BAYLISS AND INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY JAMES BARR, C. ROLLESTON, JANE HAWTHORNE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL OLIVE GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TP THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. OTHER THAN A TRACE OF TINY SPOTTING TO THE COVERS AND A PREVIOUS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE DATED 1925 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AN EXCELLENT CLEAN TIGHT UNMARKED COPY.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. July 1924 reprint. Boards clean and undamaged. Rubbing to spine ends. gilt to upper board and to spine. Bookseller labels to both pastedowns. Back hinge broken. 418pp. unmarked + plates. Textblock binding tight.

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.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Endpapers browned. Corners bumped. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 418pp. 4 photographic plates. Early edition. The first comprehensive, scientific, and practical manual on contraception aimed at both the medical profession and the public in Britain at a time when birth control was considered a taboo subject and heavily censored, Stopes' work helped break the silence on sexual health. Related ephemera from 'The Lancet' attached to rear fep (staple now rusted).

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.

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.

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.

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.

a manual for the medical and legal professionswith an introduction by Sir William Bayliss and introductory notes by Sir James Barr, Dr. C. Rolleston, Dr. Jane Hawthorne - Hard cover, IV plates, dust jacket - En anglais - 4 planches hors texte - Première édition - Reliure percaline verte, titres dorés, sous jaquette imprimée grise - Défauts mineurs en jaquette, sinon bel exemplaire XXIII, 418 pages, 22 cm, relié. Bon état.

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).

Condition: Good. 1928 ed. NO JACKET. Bumps/wear at edges/corners of hard board. Marks, scratches and fading to hard board. Loosening at spine. Tanning/marks at text blocks. Fading at page edges. Inscription at inside front board. Text good and clean.

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