Ladies of the Night / Susan Hall and photographs of Bob Adelman by Hall, Susan and Adelman, Bob

New York: New American Library/Prairie House, 1972. 188pp. Silver boards, blind stamped, Black and white photographs throughtout. Light wear along the front gutter, spine lean, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light wear to the extremities. "An in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The book is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the… Read More

NY: New American Library, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Black & white photos by Bob Adelman. 189 pages. The life of a pimp. Text by Hall. Record # 150007

New York: New American Library, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 189, [3]pp. Photographs by Bob Adelman. Slightly cocked and corners a little bumped, near fine in lightly rubbed about fine dustwrapper.

New York: New American Library / Times MIrror, 1972. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 187 pages. A fascinating book that examines the seedy underworld of prostitution. Features text by Susan Hall accompanied by black and white photographs by Bob Adelman. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy.