First UK edition of this controversial pseudonymous tell-all by a pre-Roe abortion doctor.
Very good in very good minus jacket.
Price: $350.00
"As the depression grew more devastating, the number of wives appealing to me for abortions because they could not afford to feed another mouth increased as my general practice declined to a bare minimum and my collections dwindled to the vanishing point. It was difficult to support both office and home."
New York doctor Nathan Rappaport began providing safe but illegal abortion care to women during the Great Depression before being convicted and sentenced to prison in 1950. THE ABORTIONIST, published anonymously after his release, advocated forcefully for legalizing abortion and Rappaport eventually became an active spokesman for the cause. Though fairly widely held institutionally, Rappaport's book remains, even across this and the simultaneous US release, uncommon in the marketplace.
First printing. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original full red cloth with gilt spine titles. In original unclipped (21/-net) printed jacket. 220, [2] pages. Jacket toned with some staining to spine and rear panel. Chip to front panel. Book has some foxing to edges, previous owner name to front pastedown. Overall sound.
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