Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940

Jay A. Gertzman
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
First Edition.

24cm x 16cm. 418 pages. Black cloth, white lettering, in illustrated jacket.

A history of the printed pornographic word in America, its publishers, and those who tried to control it. From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, book-plate pasted down.

Minor damp stain to rear paste-down and jacket edge. Minor insect damage to gutter of page 21/22. Minor foxing.. Good Condition.

SOLD