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

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Hardcover, bound in black cloth, boldly lettered in white on spine, in colorful pictorial publisher’s non priced and non clipped dust-jacket. 418 pages. With Notes, A Select Bibliography and Index. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A history of the “pariah capitalists” of the American publishing industry and their moralistic god-fearing opponents, both private and governmental, during the mid 20th-century. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, crisp and unmarked copy, appears unread and like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket.

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Weight 2.5 lbs
ISBN

9780812234930

Book Author

Gertzman, Jay A.

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Publish Year

Publish Place

Philadelphia, PA

Size

8vo – over 7¾ – 9¾" tall

Book Condition

Jacket Condition

Binding Type

Hardcover

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