Description
Author: Drs. Willy, Vander, and Fisher (with contributions by other authorities)
Publisher: Cadillac Publishing Co., Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: 1959
Edition: Fifty-Fifth Printing (August 1959)
Format: Hardcover, cloth
Illustrations: Illustrated throughout
Signed: Signed by Mitchell Shapiro
ISBN: None (pre-ISBN era)
Condition: Near Fine. Clean, solid cloth boards with light, age-consistent handling. Interior pages are bright and well preserved. No dust jacket, as issued for many institutional and professional copies. A very attractive example.
Description
A substantial and influential mid-century reference work, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex stands as a landmark of 1950s sexology and cultural history. Produced during a period of rapid change in attitudes toward psychology, medicine, and human sexuality, this volume reflects the serious, clinical approach of its era—intended for physicians, educators, and informed adult readers.
Lavishly illustrated and comprehensive in scope, the book addresses anatomy, relationships, psychology, and social understandings of sex as they were framed in postwar America. Its continued demand—evidenced by this fifty-fifth printing—underscores its lasting impact and historical importance.
Signed copies are uncommon, and this well-preserved clothbound example will be of particular interest to collectors of medical history, cultural studies, psychology, and mid-century Americana.
