Dope The Story of the Living Dead
New York: Star Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. vii, 1-104. Foreword by Fremont Older. Bound in black cloth with yellow lettering stamped on front board and spine. Sporadic pencil underscoring; cloth a bit soiled and edge-worn. Good. Item #6945
An expose designed to alarm the populace with grand generalizations. A quote from one addict: "cocain [sic] commits over 60 percent of the crimes of violence in America today ... the gang who are going to rob a bank or hold up a little shop keeper pep up on cocain to make the killing ... ." Nonetheless, an early entry in the history of exploitative narco-pulp, published in the heat of the fast-flapper era. Now protected with a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $50.00