Havelock Ellis: A Biography, Grosskurth Phyllis. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 492pp., illustrated, bibliography, index. Quarter black cloth over brown boards; gilt titles. Contents are in fine, unmarked condition with a small red mark to outer lower edge; unclipped jacket has moderate shelf wear.
The first full-scale biography of the complex figure whose pioneering studies of sexuality heralded the beginning of the modern attitude toward sexuality.
