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Lot 217
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$2,000
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Lot Description
[TIJUANA BIBLES]. A group of approximately 73 Tijuana Bibles, ca 1920s-1960s.
Each 32mo (each approximately 70 x 115 mm). Printed in black, red or blue; illustrated. Original stapled illustrated wrappers. With characters including Dick Tracy, Olive Oyl, Popeye, Flash Gordon, Uncle Willie, Moon Mullins, Dagwood, Blondie, 'Lil Abner, Betty Boop, Joe Palooka, Jiggs, and Esther Williams.
[With:] A group of 15 erotic ephemeral "readers," printed in the U.S., but with various false imprints including: Paris, Bibliotheque St. Germaine; Paris, Published for Private Circulation Only; Nice, M. Seufferin; Havana; and London, Passion Publishers. Each 16mo. Each approximately 32pp. Original stapled wrappers. Titles including: French Love, Pretty Gal, Love's Folly, No Love on Sunday, Man Crazy, and Fool's Paradise.

