Havelock Ellis

292pp, ten black and white plates (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo.  Sun faded spine. Bumped spine ends and corners. Text block edges starting to fox. Gutters stretched. Internally neat, clean and bright. No dust jacket.

Biography of the English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality and is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.