Castrated: my eight months in prison by Ginzburg, Ralph - 1973

New York: Avant Garde Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Engrossing memoir by the editor of Avant-Garde, "a quarterly for people ahead of their time," and of Fact, a journal wiped out by legal court cases and obscenity concerns. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, machine- but not price-clipped. [9], 10-35 pp., readable in an afternoon. Bracing black-and-white photographs of the author/editor. The memoir captures the climax of a ten-year literary cause celebre stemming from the United States Supreme Court's suppression of Ginzburg's quarterly, Eros, that the Court had found obscene.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.