Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1965 Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY. 1965. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front verso. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on FFFP. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; small closed tear on front. Rose cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Not price clipped. 207 pp 8vo. Morality in sex among teenagers and adults is on the decline and the old rules of behavior seem hopelessly out of date in the modern world. The author urges the reader to take stock and do something about it; don't follow the crowd; determine your own decisions and be in control of yourself and your own destiny. A clean pristine copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004451
Title: Sin, Sex and Self-Control
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1965
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: morality, Norman Vincent Peale, parental authority, moral inventory, premarital sex, sex, marriage, divorce, crime rates, pornography, religion, psychiatry

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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