Iwan Bloch. Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works. New York: Brittany Press, 1948.
(21 x 14 cm) pp. 269. Bound in red and black cloth, with titles in gilt on spine. Top foredge in red, else untinted. Vibrant red pastedowns and fly leaves. Slightly cocked, wear to extremities. Likely issued with a no longer extant DJ. Overall VERY GOOD condition.
Iwan Bloch (1872-1922) was a wild guy. A dermatologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and one of the founders of the field of sexology, or the science of sexuality, he also discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of the 120 Days of Sodom, which he published under a psuedonym. Freud accredits Bloch's work for being the foundation for the anthropological study of sexuality.