“The bride gave up a lock of her hair and her girdle signifying that she was taking leave of her youth and giving her virginity. At the banquet the women ate in the same room with the men but not at the same table.”
Day’s forthright account of mankind's most universal and yet most personal concern—the art of love, as practiced from Biblical times to the present.
New York: The Dial Press, 1954. Hardcover. Octavo. 522 pages. Dust jacket in fair to good condition with edge wear, chipping, and fading & waviness to spine panel (in protector). Boards clean with minimal edge wear but bumping to corners. Binding square. Hinges and joints all solid. Pages tanned. Rare copy.
