GOOD to VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage edition entitled “Is Sex Necessary?”
subtitled “Why You Feel the Way You Do,” by James Thurber and E. B. White, with 52 illustrations by
James Thurber.
It was published
by Penguin Books, of Harmondsworth, Middlesex, in association with Hamish
Hamilton, in 1960 and is the FIRST PRINTING in this form (vintage paperback,
formerly published in hardback in 1929).
A collection of comic essays as a spoof on the many popular books
on Freudian sexual theories published in the 1920s. In a preface for a later
1950 edition, White recalled, "Thurber and I were neither more, nor less,
interested in the subject of love and marriage than anybody else of our age in
that era. I recall that we were both profoundly interested in earning a living,
and I think we somehow managed, simultaneously, to arrive at the conclusion
that. . . the heavy writers had got sex down and were breaking its arm. We were
determined that sex should maintain its high spirits.
White and Thurber wrote alternate chapters, then compared them for
overlap. They invented numerous pseudo-sexual terms, including Diversion
Subterfuge, Osculatory Justification, and Schmalhausen Trouble. They also
fabricated the names of psychologists and sex researchers, including Dr. Karl
Zaner and Dr. Walter Titheridge.
The contents include:
·
The Nature
of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism
·
How to
Tell Love from Passion
·
A
Discussion of Feminine Types
·
The Sexual
Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene
·
What
Should Children Tell Parents?
·
Frigidity
in Men
…and more…
The book measures 7.1
inches x 4.5 inches and has 136 pages (including illustrations).
The book is in good,
neat condition for a softback of its age. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates
and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing
pages.
A good, neat copy
of this illustrated vintage edition.
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