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Dope menace : the sensational world of drug paperbacks, 1900-1975 / by Stephen J. Gertz.
- Title
- Dope menace : the sensational world of drug paperbacks, 1900-1975 / by Stephen J. Gertz.
- Author
- Gertz, Stephen J.
- Publication
- Port Townsend, WA : Feral House ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | NC973.5.U6 G47 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 219 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time, in all their seductive and transgressive glory."-- Tucson Weekly. While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughsrsquo; Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic 60s. We must not forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the 70s, when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House's Sin-A-Rama , an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti , longtime editor of High Times magazine, offers an informative foreword.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Book covers > United States > History > 20th century
- Popular literature > United States > History and criticism
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Beats (Persons)
- Nineteen sixties
- Nineteen seventies
- Drugs in literature
- Drug abuse in literature
- Pulp literature, American > History and criticism
- Erotic literature, American > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- This books is for "adults of low ethical standards" -- Dope noir -- Juvenile delinquents on dope -- Beatniks, bebop, boo 'n charge -- Peace, love, LSD, etc. -- Sex., drugs, rock 'n read -- The international trade.
- ISBN
- 9781932595345 (pbk.)
- 1932595341 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 216936952
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library