Anne Cumming's "The Love Habit" (1978)

Indianapolis, Indiana, US.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (book, 1st, memoir, inscribed, blurb), 1978.
9.25" x 6" x 1.25", 317 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-672-52551-8.

The Love Habit: The Sexual Confessions of an Older Woman, a memoir of sexual exploration by Anne Cumming – the pen-name of Felicity Mason – as published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company (Indianapolis, Indiana, US.) in 1978. Felicity Mason was the dearest female friend of Brion Gysin and was a friend of William S. Burroughs as well.

A blurb by William S. Burroughs is on the inside front flap: 

"Anne Cumming is the forerunner of the truly emancipated woman of the future, who is casual about her emancipation. Love affairs, she feels, should provide divertissement, not disillusionment. Sex is something to enjoy, a means of universal communication that bridges the generation gap."

This copy was inscribed by Anne Cumming to "Jessica and Lee Seagulls" in 1978.

Contents: 

• Author's Note
• 1. "I Couldn't Live Without Them": Italy and France, Christmas 1966–Summer 1967, Age 50
• 2. "London Bridge Is Burning Down": England, December 1967, Age 51
• 3. "'New York, New York. It's a Wonderful Town'": America, January 1968, Age 51
• 4. "The Revolutionary from the 16th Arrondissement": France, Summer 1968, Age 51
• 5. "A Roomful of Rainbows": Italy, 1969-1970, Age 52-53
• 6. "Life May Cease": England, Autumn 1971, Age 54
• 7. "Barcelona Blues": Spain, Summer 1972, Age 55
• 8. "The Mid-Atlantic Drawl and the Irish Scarecrow": Italy, 1972-1973–England, Winter 1973, age 55-56, 56-57
• 9. "Happiness Is for Free, Right?": America 1974, Age 57
• 10. "The Hippie Hustlers": France, Summer 1975, Age 58
• "Epilogue: Don't Look Now, but Sixty Is In Sight": Italy, June 1976, Age 59