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Menu Seduction of the Innocent #1 Bibliography 1st Printing GD+ 2.5 RESTORED 1954
Grade GD+ 2.5 (R) Restored (see item notes) Year 1954 Publisher Rinehart & Company, Inc.
RESTORATION. Color touch to dust jacket and hardcover.
This is a low grade item. The story will be complete and readable, but the item itself will have major defects. Allowed defects for this grade include: vertical book-length crease, spine split up to two inches long, detached cover or centerfold, writing or other marks on the cover, major tears, piece or pieces missing, water damage, heavy discoloration or brittleness due to oxidation, and other types of discoloration, staining, or brittleness.
Description
1st printing, WITH the bibliographical note on pages 399 & 400 intact. The bibliographical note featured comic publishers cited in the work, but these publishers forced Rinehart & Co. to remove the page. However, several copies got out before the page was removed. Written by Fredric Wertham, M.D. "With the release of this book, Dr. Wertham reveals seven years of research attempting to link juvenile delinquency to comic books. Many illustrations showing excessive violence, sex, sadism, and torture are shown." This book led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority. Years later the comics featured and mentioned in SOTI would become collectible largely due to their appearance in Wertham's book. Rinehart & Co., Inc., N.Y.: 1953, 1954, 400 pages, hardback. NOTES ON DETERMINING PRINTING: U.S. 1st printings have an R colophon on the publication page. U.S. 2nd printings do not have the colophon, and have a "Second printing" notation at the top left inside the front flap. No copies of the 2nd printing are known to exist with the bibliographic page intact. 1st & 2nd print book will have grey boards w/ black spine & white spine lettering; dust jacket will be white top, black bottom, with red SOTI letters. There is only one UK printing, and the dust jacket has an art cover. Also printed in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd.
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