Castrated : My Eight Months in Prison.

Ginzburg, Ralph, 1929-2006 [book design, Herb Lubalin; quotes, Melvin M. Belli, James Jones, Melvin L Wulf, Jerome Snyder, Sloan Wilson, Dan Greenburg, Nat Hentoff, AShley Montagu, Alexander M Bickel, I F Stone, Hugh M Hefner, Herbert GOld, Barney Rosset, Fred Jordan, Kenneth D McCormick, Harry Golden, Tom Emerson, Ralph Schoenstein, William B Arthur, Anderson Ashburn, Patricia Carbine, Sey Luckett, Geraldine Thoads, Ray Robinson, Ruth Whitney, Garth Hite, Louis Untermeyer, Bruce Jay Friedman, Arthur Miller, Clay Felker]

Published by New York : Avant Guard Books, 1973, 1973

About this Item

35 pp. ; illustrated endpapers ; black cloth with white lettering, in black, gold and white nicked and creased dustjacket ; "Ralph Ginzburg.has been referred to as everything from 'a Renaissance man' (poet Ed Sanders) to 'a pornographic pestilence' (Congresswoman Kathryn O'Hay Granahan), from 'a saint martyred on the altar of love' (Rev. George Von Hilsheimer III) to 'a hard-shelled mollusk thriving in mud' (William F. Buckley, Jr.). His first imbroglio stemmed from the publication of Eros, a quarterly on the joys of love and sex that featured erotic works by such masters as Rembrandt, D H Lawrence, Picasso, Mark Twain, Michelangelo, Norman Mailer, Ovid, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare and Robert Burns. Its suppression by the United States Supreme Court led to the imprisonment described in tis volume."--dustjacket ; the only book with the words "celsitudinous" and "claustrophobifacient" in it ; VG/FAIR.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Castrated : My Eight Months in Prison.
• Publisher: New York : Avant Guard Books, 1973
• Publication Date: 1973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Book Type: Book