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[WOMEN’S RIGHTS]. SANGER, Margaret (1879–1966). My Fight fo...

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[WOMEN?S RIGHTS]. SANGER, Margaret (1879?1966). My Fight for Birth Control. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1931]. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt?lettered spine; original unclipped dust jacket (extremities dampstained and browned, some edgewear, verso reinforced). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (with the publisher?s slug on copyright) of this important work by the lifelong advocate for birth control, a term she popularized. She also opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. which paved the way for organizations such as Planned Parenthood. RARE in the original dust jacket.