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Title proper
Erotic prospectus collection.
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Physical description
23 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
Falstaff Press was a private United States publisher of erotica. Their first publication was Musk, Hashish and Blood in 1900. On November 26, 1935 Ben and Anne Rebhuhn and their nephew Ben Raeburn were charged with sending obscene matter through the ... »
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Biographical history
Panurge Press was an American publisher founded by Esar Levine, who co-owned Falstaff Press and Robin Hood House as well. In 1926, he was convicted and imprisoned for trafficking in obscene books as a result of his attempts to publish Frank Harris's My Life and Loves.
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Scope and content
A collection of 23 prospectus, mail order catalogues, and subscription requests for erotic books. The prospectus are couched in the terms of literature, anthropology and sexology in attempts to disguise the erotic nature of the works.
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Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Between the Covers Rare Books, 2024.
General note
Many of the items in this collection use racist and offensive language and imagery to refer to or to fetishize those from African, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. This language is wrong now and it was wrong then.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created JB 2024.