Sex In Civilization Author:Edited by VF Calverton and SD Schmalhausen No dust jacket. This is a vintage copy with clean pages but the front board is a little weak along the spin when you open it. Otherwise, the spine is tight and the book readable. With an Intro by Havelock Ellis this book is a collection of essays first published in 1929, (perhaps a first edition) about sex, sexuality and civilization. It include... more »s essays by Margaret Sanger, Abraham Myerson, Waldo Frank and many others. The essays are broken down into subsets that include Sex And Psychoanalysis, Sex In Poetry And Fiction, Sex Through The Ages, The Role Of Sex In Behavior, and others. A rather unusual collection from an era gone by.« less