I am fairly new to the list, but I would guess that they probably published
it as a novelty item or for those interested in the sexual mores of an
earlier era. --Valerie
"David H. Stam" wrote:
> :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