of all and one that I call "The Dirty Book Boys." These people-- if that is really what they are--with no apparent scruples whatever try to interest anyone and everyone, by means of prurient semantic dodges of all sorts, in what they have to sell. It might be men- tioned here that there is hardly anything available in this market for the transvestite, but they would have you believe differently. They would have you believe anything if it would convince you to make a purchase. Yet this is nothing to their substantive crime which is a baldly economical one.

They are quite prepared to sell you a copy, for instance, of Jack Oleck's "Messalina", a novel about the nymphomanical third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius for a sum that is certainly Rom- an in itself--nine bucks!

I do not know what the trade prise was originally but the book is now available at several remainder houses (which, incidentally, is where most of this stuff comes from) for $2.98 or some such and it's out in paperback for around six bits. They will also sell you a paperback edition of a book written in 1591 by a Rev. Father An- tonio Gallonie called "Torture of the Christian Martyrs" and which might be had in any good paperback store for two dollars. Their special sale price is $10.00 plus "postage" plus "handling" and "hurry, they won't last at this price."

This whole traffic is disgusting and, I am sure, is one of the sewers from which the malignant fungus of censorship inevitably sprouts.

With a face as straight as their soul is larcenous these sexual earrion offer to sell you reputable scientific works and popular- izations of such as "hot items". Videlicet: "Voyage From Lesbos, "Robertiello, an Avon paperback at thirty-five cents which may be had for $5.95--I do not know for certain, but I would venture that the hardcover edition from Citadel Press, which is now a remainder house $1.50 special, did not originally cost that much. "Venus Castina", C. J. Bulliet, $2.98 (an amazing book and a wonderful ref- erence for TV's) is going for only $10.00; "A History of Orgies", B. Partridge, originally about four bucks in hard cover and now out as an Avon paperback for fifty cents has a "hothouse" price of just $8.85. You may also procure a variety of paperbacks from both rep- utable and non-reputable houses for--hold your breath!--a buck a

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