Seduction of the Innocent.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 16 plates showing examples, pp. x, [1], 397, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, top edge a trifle dusty, dustjacket slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities, very good. This edition, which adds an Introduction by Randolph S. Churchill, is scarce. Wertham was a German-born psychiatrist who worked in the US, where he observed a correlation between the phenomenon of comic books, with graphic representations of sex and violence, and increasing juvenile delinquency - 'an account of the gradual and relentless perversion of a whole generation', a problem created in the US, 'but the same terrible diet is now being fed to British children' (blurb).