MILLER, George Noyes, Member of the Oneida Community. The Strike of a Sex. A novel. William Reeves. (The Bellamy Library, no. 12.) [1895]
Half title, 2pp ads. Orig. bright red pebble-grained cloth, front board blocked in blind, front and spine lettered in gilt. A v.g. bright copy.
¶By an American author, first published in 1890: 'The most advanced Book on the Emancipation of women published'. With 'Special preface to English edition' referring to Malthus, Darwin: 'No further apology is needed for a tale which points to a discovery, already tested by experience, which claims to solve, at one and the same time, the Malthusian or population problem, the Darwinian or eugenic problem, the problem of social purity and the problem of personal health in relation to sex'. The first English edition was 1891, published by Reynolds.
Stock #43100
£150
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