Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 by Jay A. Gertzman

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

Jay A. Gertzman

418 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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