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KENT, Austin. Free Love: first edition.

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Hopkinton, N.Y.: Published by the Author, 1857. 12mo. (141 x 92 mm). Separately printed errata slip affixed to copyright page. Orignal dark green cloth stamped in blind and gilt; folding cloth case. Condition: endpapers and title page lightly soiled, contemporary ownership signature; light wear to extremities. first edition.The first of Kent's two works, both privately printed and both explorations of the conflict between free love and the institution of marriage. Foreshadowing the first works by radical sexual rights activists Tennie Claflin and Victoria Woodhull by more than a decade-Kent argues that women should have absolute freedom and the right to choose the father of their children, examining the doctrines of marriage and love of Ballou, Davis, Wright, the Fowlers and Horace Greeley. Scarce.

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