first edition Brown, orange, or red paper wrappers with title printed in black.
1922 · New York:
by [ Health and medicine. ] Hubbard, Dana S
New York: The Claremont Printing Co., Inc., 1922 First edition of these educational booklets on sex, pregnancy, puberty, marriage, and sexually transmitted infections, though likely a later state of the wrappers, which vary from those of the other copies we have handled. . Brown, orange, or red paper wrappers with title printed in black. . Seven volumes, 4 x 6. This is a full set of all seven booklets in the Sex Facts series: Facts About Marriage Every Young Man and Woman Should Know, Facts About Motherhood, Sex Facts for the Adolescent and Matured Woman, Sex Facts for Young Men, Sex Facts for Young Boys, Truth About Quacks and Self Medication, and Sex Knowledge for the Mature Mind. Some toning to wrappers of a couple volumes. Toning to first and last page of most volumes, due to paper quality. A very good set of these uncommon booklets, often found incomplete. Dr. Samuel Dana Hubbard (1869 – ?) was a dermatologist at the New York City Children's Hospital and the Director of the Bureau of Public Health Education of New York City. Along with his educational booklets, Hubbard's work extended to the silver screen, as these booklets contain ads for the film Some Wild Oats, which "was furnished and produced under the supervision" of Hubbard. He also gave a cautionary lecture on "perversion" in the filmed prologue and epilogue screened at some showings of the exploitation film Children of Loneliness (1935), which featured gay and lesbian characters (Schaefer, p. 211). n These booklets also advertise the Claremont Printing Company's salesmanship opportunities. The ad reads, "Turn your spare time into money. The strong demand for these sex books…makes it necessary to appoint more representatives, to sell these books, to clubs, churches, health organizations, and other welfare bodies."
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