The Pulps; fifty years of American pop culture by Goodstone, Tony (compiler)

(New York, Bonanza Books, 1970). Quarto, laminated pictorial dustwrapper, edges at the spine very slightly frayed, original yellow cloth, slightly mottled, pp. 239, text-illustrations, colour plates. Preliminary pages and edges a little foxed. 'Each month during the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties, millions of red-blooded American males barricaded themselves behind the bathroom doors of the nation with the latest off-limits offerings of their favorite Pulp Magazine. Proscribed by parents, condemned by educators, and ignored by critics, "The Pulps" were the outgrowth of a fiction form rooted in the early nineteenth century, and were, accoring to Playboy magazine, "those likeable lurid novels for which whole forests were leveled and upon which a whole generation of American youth was hair-raised."' .