Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks

by John Harrison

Paperback, 2006

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Available

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Publication

Critical Vision (2011), Edition: First Edition, 192 pages

Description

Hip Pocket Sleaze is an excellent introduction to the world of vintage, lurid adult paperbacks. Charting the rise of sleazy pulp fiction during the 1960s and 70s and reviewing many of the key titles, it takes an informed look at the varied genres and markets from this enormously prolific era. From groundbreaking gay and lesbian themed titles to Armed Services editions, this book covers it all. Influential authors, publishers and cover artists are profiled and interviewed, including the godfather of gore HG Lewis, Ann Bannon, Bill Ward and many others.

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A fascinating look at the trashy novels and lurid paperbacks from a now bygone age when giant crabs; witchcraft; skinheads; bikers; Nazis and other assorted sleaze cluttered the shelves of any "respectable" bookshop. (Can well remember Sven Hassel pulps being the mid-70s currency of choice on the

Back School bus.) The book is full of original research, checklists, writers, artists and publishers. Great profiles / interviews with luminaries such as the great Ann Bannon, Richard Geis, Lawrence Block, Ron Haydock and other much sought after favourites. The New English Library (NEL) checklist is worth the price alone. Excellent.

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