Gay Parisienne - April, 1932 Vintage Pulp Pin-Up

New York: Merwil Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition . Wrappers. Very Good Plus. 9 7/8" x 6 7/8. New York: Merwil Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition of the April, 1932 issue (Volume III, Number 3). 9 7/8" x 6 7/8", illustrated wrappers, 48 pp. with illustrations and photographs (nudes). Cover artist is uncredited, possibly an early Enoch Bolles effort (see scan). Over-eighteen purchase only. In exceptionally nice condition for an early thirties girlie pulp. Star-outline rubber stamp at top right corner of front cover (see scan); Very faint small rubber stamp, not legible, on rear cover; 1/2" tear at spine top, spine otherwise complete; otherwise, quite sharp, with only small-sale sporadic bits of rubbing and soiling. Very Good Plus. A scarce early issue from of a thirties girlie mag which is in fact scarce throughout its 7 year run (1931-1937). A classic from a classic genre, its contents are the standard fare: 16 full-page B&W nude photographs, soft (by today's standards) erotica short stories, and B&W illustrations for those stories which are quite thoroughly art-deco-y and rather collectible in their own right. With the exception of the occasional signed cover, the illustrations in this genre were generally unsigned and uncredited, and the authors of the stories were pseudonymic; while the genre was certainly not "indecent" enough to be banned, these magazines were not something most artists and authors particularly wanted credit for at that time. Stories in this issue: "Three-to-One" (Richard Donovan); "The Queen's Pajamas" (Frank Kenneth Young); "Naive, Naughty and Nifty -Part I" (Joseph Lichtblau); "Even in France" (Wilbur Braun); and "Jerry Consults the Doctor" (!!!) (Lane Osborn). Rare piece of periodical history. L100