LOT 3054
22nd March 2023
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LOT 3054
[TYPESCRIPT.] - Havelock ELLIS. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1908.] Vol. 6, 'Sex in Relation to Society', 279pp., original typed manuscript, loose leaf (257 x 203mm.). Comprising the typed leaves of chapters I, 2, 4 and 5 of volume 6 of 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex', with ink annotations and two hand-written leaves, titles in manuscript hand to chapters 1 and 2. (Browning, chipping and minor creasing to margins, large tear to first two leaves of chapter 1.) Pin-bound to left corner. - And includes seven published booklets by Havelock Ellis, four of which are signed by him ('The Symbolism of Dreams', 1910, 8vo, 'Variation in Man and Woman', 1903, 8vo, 'Mescal: A Study of a Divine Plant', 1902, 8vo and 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Being the First Section of Volume Three', 1903, 8vo, and a further three unsigned booklets: two copies of 'The Sexual Impulse in Women', 1902, and 'The Conquest of the Venereal Diseases', 1908, 8vo). Also includes a 2pp. a.l.s. from Havelock Ellis to architect Maurice Bingham Adams. Note: Ellis and Adams were both early members of the socialist 'Fellowship of the New Life', a precursor to the Fabian Society. Ellis mentions the fellowship in the context of helping the husband of novelist Olive Schreiner write a biography of her.
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