BIRTH

Signature on detached leaf from album, 17.5 x 11cm, good condition.

12mo, 2 pp. Printed on thin card. Fair: aged and worn. The front of the card gives contact details, including phone number, for the firm, which is stated to have been 'Est[ablishe]d. in the Reign of King George III, 1814'. Its goods are listed as 'Jewellery, Gold and Silver Boxes, Diamonds, Pearls, Emeralds, etc.

Octavo: 106 pages. AUTHOR'S COPY WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION. Good only. No dustwrapper. Tight copy in original black cloth binding (dusty and spotted), with worn green paper label (spare label at rear). Some spotting and foxing. A few pencil marks in text. Inscription on front free endpaper reads (in ink) 'To be returned to | Dr Marie Stopes | Norbury Park | Dorking | Surrey'; (in pencil) "Please keep as clean as possible as it is my only copy. | M C S'.

Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958), British paleobotanist and eugenicist, influential advocate of birth control. Clean neat inscription on recto of front free endpaper reads 'Marie C. Stopes | Norbury Park | 1935'. The volume is in good condition, in a grubby dustwrapper worn at the head and tail of the spine. Pages 324-5 and 339 have been marked up in soft pencil.