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Watts & Co., 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. First Edition. 88 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Top corner of front endpaper cut out. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Some pages loose but not detached. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends and joints. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

NY: Third International Congress of Eugenics, 1932. Special edition. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 88. Frontis portrait. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Edges little soiled, corners of cover slightly bumped and ends of spine scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. Leonard Darwin was Charles Darwin's son.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Watts & Co., 1929. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good + for Age/No Jacket. Red cloth with black lettering to fr. & sp., clean but joints and sp. rubbed and bottom outer corners bumped. half-title with series list to verso + viii + 88; small gilt name & address label top fr. pastedown, end-papers tanned, outer sides heavily, no other obvious faults though almost invisible sm. closed nick to Preface leaf. 1st pub. 1928, not clear if this 2nd ed. is changed in any way.Issued as No.9 in The Forum Series. Now scarce and sought after. Covers usual topics dear to Eugenicists hearts: sterilization, the 'feeble minded', 'inferior stock', birth control etc. 13 cm x 19 cm

London : Watts & Co., 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Provenance: Arthur Holness' copy. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: The Forum Series ; no. 9. Physical description: viii, 88 pages ; 19cm. Eugenics. Genetics.