Sex Gang by Ellison, Harlan; Merchant, Paul [Pseudonym] - 1959

Milwaukee, WI: Nightstand Books. Very Good-. 1959. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. (PBO) (book number NB 1503 aSn) The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The top front corner of the book cover has a crease, and there is some generalized spots of rubbing to both front and rear covers. The text pages are clean, but have generalized light toning. "For those of you who don’t know publishing history, for a long time in the 1960s and early 1970s, soft-core porn was written and sold by the millions outside of the normal book channels. By todays standards, these books would not even be considered hot romance, let alone erotica. But they were out front in their day. Harlan Ellison went to work for one company in Chicago as the editor after the big distribution collapse of 1959. And he hired a lot of his friends to write the… Read More

USA: USA: Nightstand Book # NB 1503 R, 1959, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 1959. ------------( later printing of the First Edition ) ---paperback, a solid Good to Very Good copy with light rubbing to the covers, a bit of age toning to paper, book is completely square, super cover art of a knife wielding juvenile delinquent terrorizing a scantily clad, buxom woman, a true modern rarity, Nightstand originally published this in 1959, a number of the stories appeared in 1950's Men's Magazines like GENT, ROGUE, etc., contents include: Sex Gang; The Girl with the Horizontal Mind (originally released as The Gal with the Horizontal Mind by Price Curtis ); Wanted: Two Trollops; The Ugly Virgin (originally released as God Bless the Ugly Virgin ); Sin Time ( originally released as The Silence of Infidelity ); The Pied Piper of sex ( originally released as The Pied Piper of Love ); Bayou Sex Cat ( originally released as A Blue Note for Bayou Betty by Derry Tiger ); The lady Had Zilch; Girl with the… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: Nightstand Books, 1959. First Edition. No. 1503. First Edition, first printing of Ellison's most desired title, with the code "NB 1503 a S n" as called for at the bottom left corner of the front wrapper. About Near Fine, a bright, clean copy with the slightest bit of wrinkle (but no creasing) near the bottom of the spine panel, and a minute closed tear at the bottom rear panel.