You might try recovering how Grove Press marketed this piece when they
published it. Their catalogue at that date could be consulted in PTLA.
Donald Farren
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> > > 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?
> > >
> > > --
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> > > jgertzma@earthlink.net
> > > author, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in
> > > Erotica,
> > > 1920-40 (U. of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999)