THE UNTOLD STORY OF 72 BOOKS THE SUPREME COURT DECIDED YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO PURCHASE, OWN OR READ.
250 PAGES 400 ILLUSTRATIONS FALL 2014 from Blurb.com and Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books.
"On December 29, 1959, NYC police officers confiscated a number of books, alleged to be obscene, from a bookstore at 254 West 42nd Street known as Publishers' Outlet. The books were all identified and were admitted into evidence..."
A total of 72 individual book titles were seized and all copies, save those used for evidence, were destroyed. Scarce few of them remain today. In fact, they are among the most rare books in the United States.
Over fifty years after a man was convicted for the crime above, and over forty five years after the United States Supreme Court upheld his conviction, collector Jim Linderman embarked on a mission to locate and purchase each book. Needless to say, none of them had an ISBN number or a Bar code.
Times Square Smut is the story of the 72 books you were not allowed to read or own, and the real artists, writers, models and criminals who produced them. The story is told by a writer who does not like to be told what books he can read.
