KISS, SCREW, PLEASURE AND SEX

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, Inc, 1969. Digest-sized pictorial wrappers. Light shelfwear. Very good. 186pp [+ 16pp. color plates]. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w photos and art reproductions. "The lid's off! Now, thanks to such publications as Kiss, Screw, and Pleasure, the common man is at last being informed about the latest beaver movies, nudie stage plays, dirty comics, etc... in four-letter language he can dig. William Teach has daringly documented - with excerpts, illustrations, and photographs - the ultra-candid, sex-oriented tabloids now being sold on street-corners and at the newsstands." -- from the back cover of the original Greenleaf Classics edition. Based primarily on the NYC sex tabloids of the title, this survey also includes underground comics (with work by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, art by Kanarek etc.) and other phenomena of the sexual revolution, plus graphic sex photos. Overall the work is presented in cultural and historical contexts and offers useful information on sex tabloids. Note: Edward Teach was the real name of Blackbeard the pirate. This, like other Editions Erectus publications we have seen, is a piracy of a Greenealf Classics title; this edition lacks the appendices and bibliography; the color plates are printed in one signature rather than two. "Rudolph Marone" is a name associated with Editions Erectus; had nothing to do with the Greenealf Classics edition, and the Parisian origin is dubious at.