COURTSHIP UNDER CONTRACT THE SCIENCE OF SELECTION A TALE OF WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION
1910 · New York, Passaic & London
by Eager, James Henry Lovell
New York, Passaic & London: The Health-Culture Company / L.N. Fowler & Co., 1910. 440pp. Deep blue cloth, lettered in white. Portrait. Edges a bit dusty, small dent in upper board, offset to endsheets from dust jacket (fragile, partial panels laid in), otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this novel promoting eugenics and social, political and economic reform. The novel proposes a form of contractual platonic cohabitation prior to marriage as a solution for the rising divorce rate. HANNA 1057. SMITH E-1. (Inventory #: WRCLIT61789)