CHESSER, Eustace (1902-73). Live and Let live, London, 1958, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Valerie with nice thoughts, Eustace, Feb. '58". With 11 other books by the same author, some PRESENTATION COPIES. (12)

CHESSER, Eustace (1902-73).  Live and Let Live. The Moral of the Wolfenden Report ... With a Foreword by Sir John Wolfenden. London: Heinemann, 1958. 8vo (183 x 125mm). Half title (some large spots to pp.38 and 39). Original brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket with price of 8s. 6d. unclipped (jacket with a piece torn away from the upper wrapper, some fraying). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To Valerie with nice thoughts, Eustace, Feb. '58." (From p.57 (printed): "If every act which the church considers sinful were treated as a crime - as Calvin wished - we should have to build prisons instead of houses.") With 11 other books by the same author, namely Unquiet Minds (London, 1952, original cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Love and Marriage (London, Pan Books, 1957, 8vo, paperback), Women. A Popular Edition of 'The Chesser Report' (London, 1958, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half title [after the printed title Women], "& you! Eustace Chesser, '58"), The Psychology of Everyday Living (London, 1958, paperback, "Advance Copy"), Odd Man Out: Homosexuality in Men and Women (London, 1959, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half title, "To Eddie with all good wishes, from Eustace, '59"), An Outline of Human Relationships (London, 1959, original cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half title, "To Valerie & Eddie, with all good wishes, Eustace, '59"), Sex and the Married Woman (London, 1968, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Is Marriage Necessary? (London, 1974, original cloth, dust-jacket, "Proof Copy"), Who Do You Think You Are? (London, 1970, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the title, "With loving thoughts, Eustace, '70"), The Human Aspects of Sexual Deviation (London, 1971, original cloth, dust-jacket) and Reich and Sexual Freedom (London, 1972, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). Eustace Chesser was a renowned, and sometimes controversial, Scottish psychiatrist, social reformer, sexologist and author. (12)