A Ritual for Married Lovers

Jules Guyot

Baltimore

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Waverly Press

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1931

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First Edition.

14.5cm x 10.5cm. ix, 130 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers.

Meditations on Marriage from the Point of View of the Physiology of Man. A succinct and explicit guide for young married couples. The first edition in English. Translated from the French Breviaire de l’Amour Experimental by Gertrude Minturn Pinchot, daughter of American shipping magnate Robert Bowne Minturn Jr. This copy from the collection of American erotologist Gershon Legman, with his signature to the marbled endpapers watermarked Paris.

Minor foxing to edges. Near Fine Condition.

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