Couplings and Groupings

New York: Pantheon Books, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's blue cloth, titled and decorated in black and blue to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 146pp. Light marginal wear, with some discolouration of the cloth at the edges, minor bumping to spine ends, a very good copy in a clean, bright priceclipped dustjacket. Internally clean. Red "H" inkstamp (with a musical note stamp next to it for some reason) to front flyleaf. Fore-edge untrimmed. A good looking copy of a carefully researched and sincere attempt to analyse and understanding the changing nature of romantic relationships in early 70's America, post the collapse (if it ever existed) of the 1950's "Nuclear Family" and the rise of the search for alternative methods of romantic expression and social bonding. Interesting and relevant.