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MOORE, Merrill

Clinical sonnets.   New York: Twayne Publishers, [1949].

8vo. 72 pp. Original publisher's cloth, in original dust-jacket, small tear to spine. Moore's inscription on fly-leaf. From the library of the Priests, with their bookplate. $350.00

First edition, first printing. "Every doctor could prepare his own Kinsey Report from his consulting-room experiences, and in a sense Dr. Moore has done just that. . . ." The verses were written about many of the patients in Moore's psychiatric practice, giving us "intimate glimpses of proper and improper Bostonians." Sonnet titles include His problem; She told me she had become a vaginal ear!; and Locked in a prison with an invisible key.


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