Item #66738 The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy. Sexual Continence, C. J. VAN VLIET.
The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy.

The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy.

Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xiv + 352pp. Green cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. Indexes. The author quotes from a vast number of sources, ancient and modern, scientific and metaphysical, to support his theories about the importance of the conservation of sex energies. Very light shelf wear, cloth lightly rubbed and darkened, page edges darkened, paper lightly toned, untidy remains of bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket is chafed & creased at all edges and points, a few small tears and chips, old prices penciled on inner flap, price clipped. Now protected in removable mylar cover.). Item #66738

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