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Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks
Contributors:
By (Author) Stephen J. Gertz
Publisher:
Feral House,U.S.
Imprint:
Feral House,U.S.
Publication Date:
1st December 2008
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
741.640973
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
219
Dimensions:
Width 166mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
648g
Description
While everyone now enjoys this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing and outlandish misinformation, pulp paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectable covers, from xenophobic turn-of-the-century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking to the spaced-out, psychedelic 60s.
