"MY GRATEFUL REGARDS AND COMPLIMENTS": FIRST EDITION OF MARGARET SANGER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1938, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HER

SANGER, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton, (1938). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $1650.

First edition of the autobiography of Margaret Sanger, who spearheaded the movement for contraceptive rights, inscribed: "To Mr Alan Kramer, my grateful regards & compliments. Margaret Sanger. Sept 7, 1943."

"As the originator of the phrase 'birth control' and its best-known advocate, Margaret Sanger survived Federal indictments, a brief jail term, numerous lawsuits, hundreds of street-corner rallies and raids on her clinics to see much of the world accept her view that family planning is a basic human right." In 1936 her efforts influenced the reinterpretation of the Comstock law "to provide for distribution of contraceptive information" (New York Times). Praised by Pearl Buck as "one of the most courageous women of our times," Sanger vigorously challenged "old sexual values; she ended her career, heavy with honors, as the respected champion of new ones. Her life spanned a period of striking changes in American attitudes about the family, the role of woman, and sexual standards. All of those changes she helped to catalyze" (ANB). Sanger founded and served as president of the American Birth Control League, organized the first World Population Conference in Geneva, and was the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. With frontispiece portrait of Sanger. "First Edition" stated on copyright page.

Book with a few faint spots to cloth and white soiling at spine head. Dust jacket with light soiling, a bit of wear to extremities, and dampstains to verso. An extremely good inscribed copy.