The Destroying Angel

Prometheus Books, 1985-04-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. 6x0x9. Prometheus, 1985; no additional printings indicated; 213pp. This copy from the collection of sociologist Ira L. Reiss, with his blind stamp on front end page. Dr. Reiss was a pioneering researcher and educator whose work, primarily at the University of Minnesota and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, aimed to broaden the theoretical and scientific framework used in the study of human sexuality, the family and gender roles. Reiss and the author were close contemporaries in the evolving field of sexual studies, and both were instrumental in founding the SSSS and the organization's standard-bearing journal, The Journal of Sex Research. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of boards, white titling remains bright and bold; Reiss's pen and pencil notations scattered throughout a few chapters, else text is clean. Light wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.