[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED First Edition of Margaret Sanger's AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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SANGER, Margaret. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 
(1938). First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Bump 
to upper front corner. Near Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper.

In her job as a nurse for maternity cases for mostly poor mothers in New 
York, Sanger often observed women resorting to self-induced abortions. 
Mrs. Sanger nursed one mother, close to death after a self-inflicted 
abortion, back to health, and heard the woman plead with a doctor for 
protection against another pregnancy. "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof," 
the physician said. The mother died six months later during a second 
abortion, and Sanger soon renounced nursing forever: "I came to a sudden 
realization that my work as a nurse and my activities in social service 
were entirely palliative and consequently futile and useless to relieve 
the misery I saw all about me." (#016094)        $500.00

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