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Sin-a-rama
sleaze sex paperbacks of the sixties
By Parfrey, Adam & Daley, Brittany A. & Lunch, Lydia & Gertz, Stephen J.
- ISBN
- 978-1-93259-505-5
- Publisher
- Los Angeles, CA : Feral House, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 24, 2005
Older readers may remember the lurid soft-X-rated paperbacks-titles like Topless Waitress, Lake of Lust, Casting Couch and so on-that crowded the shelves of newsstands and candy stores but more often adult bookstores in the 1960s. What most distinguished these paperbacks wasn't their narratives but their frequently amazing covers, swashes of erotic eye-candy that, as surely as a Warhol soupcan, now define an era. And so the emphasis in this first-rate celebration of these paperbacks is on the covers, with hundreds reproduced in wha...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
