BLUE BOOK New Orleans red light district guide directory Pleasure the Gay City

Description: For Sale The Blue Book: Guide to Pleasure for Visitors to the Gay City Billy News Ninth Edition Privately printed : New Orleans Year unknown perhaps 1960’s. Size: 6.5" by 5" SUMMARY I believe this is a facsimile of a early directory to the red-light district of New Orleans, providing a list of working women and their addresses, including advertisements for the most well-known. Overall Condition: Very Good DESCRIPTION An uncommon work in the publisher's original paper wraps. A believed facsimile reprint of the ninth edition - a special Mardi-Gras edition - of this directory to the red-light district of New Orleans, originally issued in late 1800’s. This work provided a list of prostitutes and their addresses in New Orleans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with titillating advertisements describing the appearance and specialties of select ladies. An uncommon and unusual publication. This is a rare copy of the Blue Book, of New Orleans’ Storyville. The books were also available in saloons and barbershops. An amazing historical document. The listed women and their addresses. Complete with Cigar & Alcohol Advertisements From 3rd page… Preface …“A word to the wise” The author of the Directory and Guide of the Tenderloin District has been before the people on many occasions as to his authority on what is doin in the “Queer Zone” – Tenderloin. Everybody who knows to-day from yesterday will say that my Blue Book is the goods right from the Spring… CONDITION In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally fairly nice, with a little fading to the spine and rusting to the staples. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Overall Condition: Very Good

Price: 450.99 USD

Location: Covington, Louisiana

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