Jun 20, 2019 - Sale 2514

Sale 2514 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HAVELOCK ELLIS (1859-1939)


Transcript Signed, a brief review of Alfred Adler's Das Problem der Homosexualität, with a 2-line holograph addition and other corrections. 2 pages, 4to, written on rectos of separate sheets; pinholes and minor staining at upper left of each, horizontal fold. Np, circa 1930.

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The review is critical of Adler's book, concluding with the remark that it is an ill omen that no American has attempted to translate it, adding, in holograph: "Nor does there seem to have been any German demand for a second edition."

". . . [E]xamination of the book has not supported my favourable attitude. . . . I do not consider it a really good treatment of the subject, and I do not think it would be widely useful to English doctors or patients. . . .

"There are two publics to one or both of which a book of this nature should appeal: (1) the medical profession in need of a guide to treatment, and (2) inverts themselves who, although they are not anxious to advertise their existence, are a large and often highly intelligent body. . . ."
with--Two items: Berthold Laufer. Ein homosexuelles Bild aus China in Anthropophyteia; Jahrbücher für Folkloristische Erhebungen und Forschungen zur Entwicklunggeschichte der geschlechtlichen Moral. Vol. VI. 162-166 pages. Small 4to, wrappers, staple binding. Leipzig, 1909 Leaflet: "'Urania' / (anciennement 'Inversions') / Revue de l'homosexualité . . . ." 1 page, 8vo. [Paris, 1925].