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Softcover. Zustand: Good. "Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer . It did seem a pity that she had to die, when she would have liked so much to live" -- A sound reading copy. Some wear to covers and edges; text clean and complete.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None as Issued. 2nd Edition, 5th Printing. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Blue softcover/VG w/trace edge & surface wear. 1929 classic satire as pseudo-scientifc sex manuals flooded the market after Freud turned sexuality into a science, just when both Thurber and White were "profoundly interested in earning a living". This book also marks the prose narrative published by either cartoonist, author & wit James Thurber (1894 - 1961) or by E. B. White (1899 - 1895) of Charlotte's Web fame. Masterpiece of comic, whimsical humor. What of life, ove, and marriage? Spoof on men, women, psychologists, and how-to-books. Illustrated w/52 drawings (originally rendered in penci) this reissue has an Introduction by White dated 1950. 190 pgs, in 8 chapters: I, The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism; II, How to Tell Love from Passion; III, A Discussion of Femine Types; IV, The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene; V, The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion; VI, What Should Children Tell Parents?; VII, Claustrophobia, or What Every Young Wife Should Know; and VIII, Frigidity in Men, followed by Glossay, and E.B. White's account on how Thurber's cartoons were assembled.…