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Bookleggers and Smuthounds. The Trade in Erotica 1920-1940.
199928914Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Between the two world wars at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce Theodore Dreiser and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and "little dirty comics." Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history revealing the subtle symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica and the moralists who attached them—and how the existence of both groups depended on the enduring appeal of prurience. University of Pennsylvania Press, unknown
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