Chicago: American Vigilance Association, n.d., ca. 1912. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); bifolium. Extremities a bit worn and wrinkled from handling, stock lightly toned, else About Very Good. At head of title: "Compliments of the American Vigilance Association." Recruitment pamphlet and manifesto of the newly-formed Association, founded to fight the "white..... More

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition. Novel set in a Louisiana steamboat town, featuring a prostitute protagonist who takes a pair of youths under her protective wing and moves them to New York, where they accomplish (and ultimately suffer) more than they ever thought was possible. Basis for..... More

Berkeley: University of California, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],344pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. More

Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. Extremely uncommon survey of vice and crime in the Windy City, presented as an exercise in "psychopathology" but written in a flat, hard-boiled style by the enigmatic "Prince Immanuel of Jerusalem," whose true identity is shrouded in mystery. This pseudonym turns up in..... More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 160pp. Very light wear to extremities and spine ends, in a clean, strong orange card dustjacket with some light marginal soiling and discoloration. A very good, smart copy. Internally clean with..... More

Saint Louis: The National Rip-Saw Publishing Company, 1911. Uncommon early pamphlet by the socialist/feminist agitator, accusing the Church of abandoning the needs of the working class, leading to alcoholism and prostitution. "Fortieth thousand." 12mo; staple-bound, printed self-wrappers; 35pp. Mild toning to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. More

New York: Powerhouse Books, 1996. First Edition. 4to. 23cm x 18cm. Publisher's glossy paper covered boards, light wear and bumping to extremities, clean and tight. A very good copy. 256pp. Internally clean. Copiously illustrated with black and white photographs by Sylvia Plachy, and text by Village Voice journalist James Ridgeway..... More

New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 76pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket, just a bit foxed on lighter portions. Self-published poetry by the Washington, D.C. area poet, described on the jacket copy as "..a struggling black woman with a soft spot for..... More

Portland: By the Author / Press of A.E. Kern, 1925. Written as an expose of the bootlegging and white slavery rackets of Oregon, the novel chronicles the fall and rise of an innocent country girl who comes to Portland from the cheese-making village of Tillamook. The author's foreword announces that..... More

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. Serious study of prostitution as a social problem, as a profession, as an institution, and as a way of life. Written by a professor of sociology at the City College of New York and a prostitution investigator in the profession for 50 years. Octavo..... More