VintageSleaze.com

Home
BOOKS
Book Heaven
MAGAZINES
MAGnificent
WRITERS
Clyde Allison and other scribes
ARTISTS
Bonfils and more
MODELS
Roberta and her friends
Gallery
Reference Books
Themes
Clubhouse
SPECIALS
Erotica

THE GAY ONES
FABIAN BOOKS
Z 124
THE GAY ONES
Eve Linkletter
1958
orig. price 35 cents
Nicely written gay novel
NEAR FINE
Cover is flat and crisp, but has very minor spine chip .
A very nice copy of this hard-to-find book.
$20
Order this book!

Rear pages feature checklists, an ad for the "new" Aday men's magazine MAN'S FAVORITE PASTIME, and numerous incantations against censorship from both Aday and legendary legal mind Stanley Fleishman, including this lengthy piece:

GOVERNMENT ATTACKS FABIAN BOOKS

Fabian Books are under attack.   It is charged that our books are unfit for public reading because they deal with sex too intimately.  We believe that the governmet attack is ill considered and insulting to you, our readers.  We do not believe that you must have your reading material spoon fed to you by government officials to decide for free citizens what they should or should not read.  We attempt to publish honest, true-to-life stories depicting life as it is and not neccessarily as it should be.  Our books treat with sex, of course, as sex is an important aspect of life.  The attack upon us stems from prudes who would, in the Victorian manner, confine discussions to the impeccably regular kind which a reverand mother would contemplate with equanimity.   BUT MOST THINKING PEOPLE AGREE THAT THIS OSTRICH-LIKE APPROACH TO SEX IS QUITE WRONG AND HAS CAUSED GREAT HARM TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF VAST NUMBERS OF PERSONS.  Whether our books are good or bad literature is not the point of course.  The best test of their worth is the market place: if they fill some need, if they give some pleasure, they will be purchased and read and not otherwise.  Since your freedom to read what you choose is also at stake we would appreciate your writing and advising us in as GREAT DETAIL AS POSSIBLE what you think of the Fabian Books you have read.  We are particularly anxious to know if in your opinion any of the books deal too intimately with sex.  Finally, let us know whether you believe the books should be suppressed and should be allowed to circulate and be distributed TO ADULTS
.  Please address your communications to:
Brock, Fleishman, & Rykoff
Suite 214 1741 Ivar Avenue
Hollywood 28, California


Aday was eventually convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

 Check out more Gay sleaze or more titles form Eve Linkletter.


email me