Intimate Behaviour [signed]

253 p. 25 cm. ; ISBN: 039447919X; 9780394479194 LCCN: 73-179304 ; OCLC: 187318972 ; LC: HM132; BF199; Dewey: 158/.2 ; brown cloth in red and white dustjacket ; store label on front end paper ; One of the best chronicles of human intimacy--from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace. ; Born in Wiltshire, England, in 1928, Desmond Morris got his undergraduate degree in zoology from Birmingham University and his doctorate from Oxford. He became curator of mammals at the London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years. He was already the author of some fifty scientific papers and seven books before completing his now famous The Naked Ape in 1967, which has sold more than ten million copies throughout the world and was translated into almost every known language. ; Contents: The roots of intimacy -- Invitations to sexual intimacy -- Sexual intimacy -- Social intimacy -- Specialized intimacy -- Substitutes for intimacy -- Object intimacy -- Self-intimacy -- Return to intimacy. ; SIGNED by Morris on the title page, dated 1972 ; FINE/FINE