The Chapman Report [*SIGNED*]

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, modest browning to pages (due to cheap grade of paper used), minor scrunching to top corners of a small section of pages; jacket chipped at top of spine (no loss of text), a little additional wear and creasing at top corners, general edgewear]. INSCRIBED generically ("Best - ") and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper, relatively uncommon thus. The titular "Report" -- inspired by Kinsey's -- was a nationwide study of the sex lives of American women, and specifically "what happens when Dr. Chapman and his associates come to a California suburban community to complete their survey." Basis for a tame and almost laughably unsexy 1962 film adaptation, directed by George Cukor, which provided Jane Fonda with one of her earliest film roles, as a frigid young widow. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. played the Kinsey figure, who gets a little too involved with the Fonda character; the other sexually hung-up ladies, personifying the dysfunctional Modern American Woman, were played by Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom and Glynis Johns. Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 18245)