First edition, signed issue.
Octavo.
352pp.
Pictorial endpapers.
Blue cloth gilt.
Recipient's pencil underlining and marginal notations in text, and extensive pencil notations on two pages of the appendix, elucidating persons and events mentioned in the text.
Extremities are a bit rubbed, light offsetting on the front endpapers from a newspaper clipping, else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket.
Publisher's signed issue, with a page Signed by Margaret Sanger as issued.
Additionally warmly Inscribed by Sanger on the half-title: "For Peggy Blodgett, My dear friend and once neighbor, devoted love, Margaret Sanger, May, 1955.
" The recipient's pencil inscription below Sanger's inscription states (in part): "M.
S.
asked me to meet with her privately before the P.
P.
Annual luncheon at the Waldorf.
M.
S.
gave me this book at this time.
".
We could find out little about Blodgett beyond that she was a Bryn Mawr graduate who at one time worked with Alice Stone Blackwell.