Obsession by Janson Hank (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. wear creasing browning pages. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Browned Pages. No Jacket. First Edition. Undated Circa Late 1950's.LOVELY COVER ART E-mail for details and PHOTOS! Size: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine quite worn and creased with a two inch tear up the side of the front panel at the bottom and another smaller one at the top. The pages are all tight but are browned and fairly worn. Light creasing and marking on the cover which has a felt tip '25' on it and the original price obscured. First printing. Postage will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Condition: Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated card covers featuring typical 'pulp fiction' colour art work to the front and rear covers. Hank Janson, a reporter for the Chicago Chronicle, was an invention of the English author Stephen D. Frances. Following the Second World War, pulp fiction and paperbacks were banned from being exported into the UK from America. Consequently, Hank Janson's rather sexual as well as violent adventures filled a huge gap in the British market. During the early 1950s, Frances sold millions of Janson thrillers, up to 4,000 copies a day, but his career would be cut short when in January 1954 twelve jurors sat at the Old Bailey to hear charges of obscenity against seven crime novels. Hank's publisher and distributor were found guilty and imprisoned and an arrest warrant put out for the author. Frances only escaped prosecution by fleeing to Spain. The trial created a new Obscene Publications Act. Frances died in 1989 in relative obscurity, but Steve Holland's The Trials of Hank Janson, published in 2004, was short-listed for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for non-fiction. 8vo 7'' x 4¼'' 160 pp. Cheap paper browning, 20 mm loss of the white card to the foot of the spine. Priced 2/6 to the spine, upper and lower covers, without any ownership marks and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…