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(PROSTITUTION.) HEARTMAN, CHARLES F.
The Blue Book. A
Bibliographic attempt to describe the Guide Books to the Houses of Ill Fame in
New Orleans * From the Scarlet Past of Fabulous New Orleans.
Frontispiece and
additional illustrations. 77 pages. Tall 8vo, original blue cloth with title in gilt on the upper
cover; 12mo, original wrappers. illustrations of various prostitutes; souvenir edition of the
“Blue Book” loosely laid in.
Vp, 1936, 1953
[300/400]
The first title is a copy of dealer Charles Heartman’s Bio-bibliography of the notorious New Orleans
“Blue Books.” The second is a souvenir with excepts from the books.
The “Blue Books” were guides to the various brothels in New Orleans’ “Tenderloin” district and were
clear about the house’s specialties “Miss Lulu White, the famous West Indian Octoroon,” or “Willie V.
Piazza. . . If you have the ‘blues,’ the Countess and her girls can cure ‘em.
495
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495
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(RACISM.) CAMPBELL, JOHN.
Negro-Mania, Being an Examination
of the Falsely Assumed Equality of
the Various Races of Men.
551 pages.
Large, thick 8vo, original cloth, re-cased
and re-backed, laying down most of the
original spine; occasional foxing through-
out. Housed in a specially made cloth
clamshell box.
Philadelphia, 1851
[300/400]
FIRST EDITION OF THIS WHITE SUPREMA
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It is phenomenal that one could fill 500 pages
with a prejudice that should only fit on one
page. Campbell did not like anyone that did
not fit the Aryan mold. Unlike the Nazis,
Campbell did not include the Indians among
the pure. He quotes a large number of scientists,
and statesmen including Thomas Jefferson, to
make his point.