Inscribed by the author: “To Hugh de Sélincourt from Havelock Ellis”. De Selincourt, English man of letters, was Ellis’s intimate friend, although he took the intimacy a step further than Ellis had expected when he took as lover Francois Delisle, Ellis’s long term partner. Ellis’s biographer Vincent Brone tells us that though a tender lover, Ellis suffered from premature ejaculation to the point of impotence, which apparently was by a long way not a problem for De Selincourt, apparently a master of the art of coitus reservatus.Spine a little faded, otherwise an excellent copy.
