Composts of Tradition : Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations - a Book of Most Interesting Short Stories Striking At the Prevalence of Degeneracy in the Modern Era

Heath, Oscar Morrill

Verlag: O. M. Heath and Co., Chicago, 1913

Beschreibung

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; 1913 (self-published) Chicago. An unusual and uncommon collection written in pursuit of social reform. Soundly bound in original title lettered dust jacket. Jacket title: "Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations - a Book of Most Interesting Short Stories Striking At the Prevalence of Degeneracy in the Modern Era." Author's small sheet advertising his two Beauty Parlor establishments in Chicago is pasted in at front. Blue cloth with titles in gilt. Orange paper dust jacket with title lettering in blue. Jacket rubbed and chipped at edges with light soiling and toning to surfaces. Light damp soiling outline to jacket rear panel. Mild damp line visible top edge of the page block. Illustrated with some b&w photos and figures. Auhtor appears to be a social reformer seeking the more equal treatment of women in marriage and divorce, the legalization and regulation of prositution, abolishment of slums and establishment of low cost and good housing for the working poor etc. An unusual work, uncommon in hardcover editions. G+/G+. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40101

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Composts of Tradition : Traditional Sex and ...

Verlag: O. M. Heath and Co., Chicago

Erscheinungsdatum: 1913

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good+

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+