Filth for Sale
Los Angeles: Period Publications, 1961. 1st Edition. 12mo, publisher’s stiff illustrated paper wraps.
Early 1960s pulp paperback novel sensationally chronicling the lives of women driven by the scandal of unwanted pregnancy into the hands of underground abortionist Robert Rader. Published during a period in which public conversations about abortion were beginning to fracture, with commentators pushing for reform and early television dramas portraying illegal abortion providers sympathetically, Filth for Sale provides an incidental snapshot of shifting attitudes toward sex and reproductive politics a decade before Roe v. Wade. Publisher’s catalog number M-104. Remainder notch to top edge of textblock. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Very good. Item #12856
$100.00