From 1948, the first edition of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred C. Kinsey of Indiana University, and two co-authors from the same school, Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin. Published by W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. Sized 9x6 inches, bound in dark red cloth, gilt titles, 804 pages. Great condition. With an April 1948 gift inscription. One of the first books to deal with homosexuality in a straightforward way. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, statistical study published in 1948 by A.C. Kinsey and his associates W.B. Pomeroy and C.E. Martin, the first of its kind. Both this work and Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) relied on personal interviews. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male created a sensation; although it was intended for a professional readership and was largely statistical in format, in the year of its publication it ranked fourth among nonfiction best sellers in the United States