ELLIS SYMONDS Sexual Inversion 1897 ELLIS Studies in the

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ELLIS, HAVELOCK; and SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON. Sexual Inversion. Half-title. Preface dated April 1897. 8vo, original cloth, lower outer corner of front cover bumped; some gatherings sloppily opened, ink smudges on page 290. London: Wilson and Macmillan, 1897

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scarce first edition in english of the first objective book-length study of homosexuality in English and the first volume of Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex, withdrawn before publication at the behest of Symonds's literary executor. Owing to Ellis's concerns in the wake of the Oscar Wilde trial and difficulties in finding a publisher, the book appeared first in a German version in 1896. A slightly revised second edition in English omitting Symonds's name was published later in 1897 and banned for obscenity.
with: ELLIS, HAVELOCK. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Vol. II. The Evolution of Modesty. The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity. Auto-Erotism. 11 leaves of diagrams, the last folding. Half-title, preceded by 2 ad leaves. 8vo, original cloth, uniform with the preceding work, lower outer corner of front cover bumped. Leipzig & Philadelphia, 1900. first edition, and the only other volume of Ellis's Studies to appear in England. A Philadelphia publisher brought out the 5 subsequent volumes in the series and reissued the first 2 in reverse order to deflect attention from the work on homosexuality.