Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894-1956), et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [and] Female. Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders, 1948, 1953.

2 volumes, 8vo. Original dark red cloth; dust jacket (fading, some losses along extremities with creases and folds repaired on verso).

FIRST EDITIONS. Widely regarded as the first major figure in modern American sexual studies, Dr. Alfred Kinsey was an American biologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, posthumously renamed the Kinsey Institute. Along with Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and later Paul Gebhard, Kinsey conducted an unprecedented 18,000 interviews with average American men and women in which they detailed their sexual preferences. His research is widely credited with helping to normalize the prevalence of LGBTQ+ persons in the United States, and he is considered to be one of the forefathers of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.

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Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894-1956), et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [and] Female. Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders, 1948, 1953.

Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894-1956), et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [and] Female. Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders, 1948, 1953.

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