'TO DEPRAVE AND CORRUPT.' ORIGINAL STUDIES IN THE NATURE AND DEFINITION OF 'OBSCENITY'.

CHANDOS, John (Editor). Norman St John Stevas.

Published by Souvenir Press, London, 1962

About this Item

8vo. pp. 207. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Striped grey and white and pink and purple dust jacket lettered white and black. Loosely inserted headed notepaper from John Chandos, 2 Coleherne Court, London S.W.5. to Norman St. John-Stevas, Esq., The Economist, 22 Ryder Street, S.W.1. typed 'With the compliments of the editor'. Also loosely inserted House of Lords headed notepaper with note in Norman St. John Stevas' hand, dated October 2007, and with the names of Digby Dolben, the Uranian poet and cousin of Robert Bridges who died tragically young from drowning, and Gerald Manley Hopkins. Norman St. John Stevas contributed a study on 'The Church and Censorship', others were written by Dean William B. Lockhart & Robert C. McClure, Lord Birkett, Ernest Van Den Haag, Maurice Girodias, Walter Allen, Claire & W.M.S. Russell and John Chandos, who mentions St. John Stevas and his invaluable work 'Obscenity and the Law' in the Editor's Acknowledgements. Norman St. John Stevas, Lord St John of Fawsley (1929 2012), was a Conservative politician, author and barrister. Small closed tear to dust jacket at head of spine and spine slightly dulled, otherwise very good. Slight wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 'TO DEPRAVE AND CORRUPT.' ORIGINAL STUDIES IN THE NATURE AND DEFINITION OF 'OBSCENITY'.
• Publisher: Souvenir Press, London
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)