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197131773Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1971. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; x 320 6pp. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket with a bit of light overall shelfwear. Serious study of prostitution as a social problem as a profession as an institution and as a way of life. Written by a professor of sociology at the City College of New York and a prostitution investigator in the profession for 50 years. Quadrangle Books unknown books
19128272Chicago: republished by the vice commission for distribution by the American Vigilance Assoc 1912. 4th edn. 8vo Pp. 399. Paper browning. A VG copy. republished by the vice commission for distribution by the American Vigilance Assoc unknown books
187930690Brussels: Gay et Doucé 1879. No. 220 of 600 copies. Etched frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth brown morocco spine label t.e.g. others uncut. No. 220 of 600 copies. Etched frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Gay et Doucé unknown books
191134798Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux 1911. First Edition No. 11 of 12 copies printed on Japon. Illustrated with eight plates in three states. 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. One gathering loosened else a fine copy. First Edition No. 11 of 12 copies printed on Japon. Illustrated with eight plates in three states. 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Twelve Copies Printed on Japon. History of prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris. Bibliothèque des Curieux unknown books
1933709351933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. Rare 1933 Digest of Laws Regulating Macau's Sex Trade Macau. China. Prostitution. Regulamento das Meretrizes Aprovado pelo Portaria Provincial No. 1:093 De 7 de Abril de 1933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. 22 pp. Text in Portuguese and Chinese. Stitched pamphlet in printed paper wrappers. Some edgewear a few chips and minor tears to wrappers early annotations to front wrapper light toning to interior. $950. Only edition located. Laws governing prostitution in the Portuguese colony of Macau 1557-1999 were first enacted in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1930s the government administered the trade directly through the Regulamento das Meretrizes. No copies located on OCLC. unknown books
1913860<p> New Orleans ca 1913-1915 apparently the last edition. 16mo 6" x 4.5" unpaginated 96 pp. illustrated throughout primarily in conjunction with advertisements but also including two illustrations from photographs; one depicting the facade of "The Studio'"also known as Emma Johnson's "House of all Nations" the other providing a provocative portrait of Rita Walker the "Oriental Danseuse." Original pale blue stapled wraps the covers printed in red ink internally printed in black. Arceneaux/ <i>Guidebooks to Sin </i># 10 a variant issue.</p><p>Wraps moderately toned & soiled corners creased slight edge wear brief foxing at early & late leaves otherwise very good.<br /></p><p>A delightful guide to "Storyville" the legally sanctioned red-light district of New Orleans. Provides lists and locations of some 573 "residents" and 45 "late arrivals." The ladies are categorized by ethnicity with separate lists for "white" "colored" and "octoroon." Additionally features 23 full page advertisements for brothels as well as advertisements for cabarets liquor cigars etc. Although not credited the Blue Books were compiled by Billy Struve manager of Thomas C. Anderson's infamous "Annex."<br /></p><p>Pamela Arceneaux notes that two versions of this edition were published which she considers to be one print run. The first example she describes is printed internally in red & black the other in only black. She further notes that the black ink example is bound with three staples rather than "the usual two seen in most issues." This copy printed in black is secured by two staples. <br /></p><p><b><i>"WHY NEW ORLEANS SHOULD HAVE THIS DIRECTORY Because it is the only district of its kind in the States set aside for the fast women by law."</i></b> ~excerpted from the preface.</p><p><br /></p><br /> paperback books
