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Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

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Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

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Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

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Full title

Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.

Call Numbers

N363.470973/5

Record Identifier

74VvrXKNlXbl

MMS ID

991011344309702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs -- 2. "Sex O'Clock in America": Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why -- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy": John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice -- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery"...

Publication information

Publisher

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.

Place of Publication

Pennsylvania

Date Published

c1999.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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,...

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Full title

Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c1999.

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Call Numbers

N363.470973/5

Record Identifier

74VvrXKNlXbl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrXKNlXbl

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ISBN

0812234936 (acid-free paper)

9780812217988 (pbk.)

0812217985 (pbk.)

9780812234930 (acid-free paper)

DDC

363.470973

MMS ID

991011344309702626

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