Harropian Books

[Quack Medicine] A Guide to Sex Instruction : Vital Facts of Life for all Ages

SHANNON, Thomas W.

Marietta, OH: S. A. Mullikin Company, (1913). First Edition. Hardcover. "Spooning is a growing evil..." The first stand alone edition [assume] without the introduction by B.S. Steadwell and additional Eugenics material present in the more commonly available printings titled "Self Knowledge and Guide to Sex Instruction". Decorative cloth over boards, 8vo size (7-5/8 inches tall), pp. 266, [6 - ads], color frontis, B&W author portrait, illustrated w. color and B&W plates and in-text line drawings. Volume w. slight roll, ffep removed exposing mull in hinge, toning and soil to cloth, text w. just occasional finger soil and two dog ears noted, else unmarked. Good. Item #5010

See p. 261-2 for Shannon's "Spooning is a growing evil..." viz., the good doctor's 1912 reasoning behind his impotence diagnosis for a young man and recommended cures for same.

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