The Key (Issue One)
DavidHaywards Heath: Sussex Mailbox, 1995.
First Edition.
29.5cm x 21cm. 52 pages. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
English fetish contact magazine, edited and published by a one-man operation “David” trading as Sussex Mailbox. Contains more than 200 detailed contact advertisements (the editor states his aim was to produce a higher-quality contact magazine than otherwise available in England at the time), interspersed with lengthy profiles of individual fetishists or their desires and minor fetish trade advertisements, a letters to the editor section, and a guide to advertising in a planned second issue. Laid in is a key to the codes used in the advertisements. The editorial reports that the publisher had been raided by police on 8 March [1995] in connection with the magazine. Several letters, dated April and May [1995], refer to the raid and offer sympathy. No second issue has been traced, and it is possible the police attention curtailed the title after a single number. Unrecorded in OCLC.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition.
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