По д-ру Гойеру, Бушу, Ванъ деръ Вельде, Форелю, Шоу, Безсанье, Эллису и др [According to Dr. Heuer, Busch, Van de Velde, Forel, Shaw, Besant, Ellis, et al.]

КРАСОТА И СТРАСТЬ ЖЕНЩИНЫ [Krasota I Strast Zhenshchiny, "Beauty and Passion of a Woman"]

Riga: Грамату Драугс [Grāmatu Draugs], 1930. First Edition. Octavo, 80, 97-224 pages, plus 5 plates, lacking signature 6 (p. 81-96). In Good minus condition. Rebound in navy buckram cloth quarter binding with marbled paper boards, with bound in ribbon bookmark. Original front cover is preserved and bound-in. Boards show some rubbing along edges and at head and tail of spine, with exposed board at the fore corners. Spine slightly cocked. Text block is darkly age toned and moderately worn along edges. Moderate age toning and light soiling throughout. Original front cover is heavily soiled and lightly creased. Third plate is loose and laid-in. Shelved in Case 4.

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1409653

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $250

NOTES

This is a rare first edition of a compilation focusing on female sexuality, psychology, and relationships published by Grāmatu Draugs, which operated in the city of Riga in Latvia during the interwar period. This book is an example of the "liberated" literature of the time, discussing topics that were were being increasingly censored in the USSR. Latvian works of this type from this era are quite rare because many were lost or destroyed when Latvia came under Soviet occupation, as the USSR considered literature of this type to be subversive.