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Re: very strange Grove Press imprint



:You might try to find something about it in the Grove Press archives at
 Syracuse University Library.  Write to Kathleen Manwaring 
(kmmanwar@syr.edu) to whom I've copied this message.  David 
Stam

> In 1967 Grove Press published LIGHT ON DARKCORNERS: A COMPLETE SEXUAL
> SCIENCE AND GUIDE TO PURITY, by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols. It
> is a conservative manual about sex, marriage, neurosis
> 
> and disease warning men and women of the hideous results of  various
> forms of vice and expressing the necessity for restraint of
> sensuality, yet taking into account the scientific findings of the
> Eugenics movement. The book was apparently first published in 1916,
> written by Jefferis and publisehd by J L Nichols and Company as SEARCH
> LIGHTS ON HEALTH; LIGHT ON DARK CORNERS . . . . Would anyone know why
> the Grove Press would publish such
> 
> a title, especially after it had become well established as a
> publisher of sexually explicit and politically left-wing fiction and
> non-fiction, including a lot of Victorian erotica?
> 
> --
> Jay A. Gertzman
> The Galaxy APT. 1-33G
> 7000 Blvd. East
> Guttenberg, NJ 07093
> jgertzma@earthlink.net
> author, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in
> Erotica,
>    1920-40 (U. of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jay A. Gertzman
> The Galaxy APT. 1-33G
> 7000 Blvd. East
> Guttenberg, NJ 07093
> jgertzma@earthlink.net
> author, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica,
>    1920-40 (U. of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999)
> 
> 


David H. Stam
History Dept
Syracuse Univ., Syracuse NY 13244
315-443-5883/2210


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