Sleazy books in NYC?

[biggerbilly]

Does anyone know a bookstore in NYC that sells old sleazy novels? I know I can buy them online, but I kind want to go through the old process of holding them in my hand first before buying. A shop in Toronto or Montreal will also work for me.

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/141740a9866042025f86e5db07028588/tumblr_p4vpbeO7vX1uu1nbao1_500.jpg

[BabyBoomer]

Does anyone know a bookstore in NYC that sells old sleazy novels? I know I can buy them online, but I kind want to go through the old process of holding them in my hand first before buying. A shop in Toronto or Montreal will also work for me.

 

http://78.media.tumblr.com/141740a9866042025f86e5db07028588/tumblr_p4vpbeO7vX1uu1nbao1_500.jpg

 

This is just a guess, but @Tonyko might know about NYC.

 

~Boomer~

[RyanDean]

I would recommend rummaging through the folks selling these kind of books on AbeBooks.

https://www.abebooks.com/collections/sc/vintage-paperbacks-gay-male/6Nw6vyjt9FXtsQoVDbgKYK

Many are private dealers/collectors, some of whom will set up viewing appointments. Hang Fire Books -- which set up the gallery linked above -- is based in Brooklyn and does arrange such appointments.

[edjames]

Books stores in NYC are few and far between these days.

Online is, of course, your best recourse, however, The Strand might have some tucked away.

https://www.strandbooks.com

[Tonyko]

This is just a guess, but @Tonyko might know about NYC.

 

~Boomer~

What he's looking for is now in NYC about as rare as a working payphone. TREASURES on Hudson St in The Village was THE bookstore for things like this, and the back was filled with glass counters full of shoe boxes of "private" photos for sale, entire series of individual models mostly taken by one (gross) guy who lived somewhere above the store who photographed street boys or any boy in need of some quick $$ in his apt, (instantly recognizable bc they were all photographed in the same apt on the same ratty sofa with the same ratty towels spread out) as well as those studio photo sets that old porn co's used to sell by mail order etc. Also the occasional box of old private poloroids from no one knows where of nameless boys. You could spend HOURS flipping thru ea box like an old card drawer at the library (remember those lol?) SADLY bookstores like that, and Oscar Wilde also in The Village, are only a memory now.

[+ poolboy48220]

There's a huge used bookstore in Detroit, John King books, in a four-or-five story tall warehouse near downtown. It advertises itself as the biggest used bookstore in the United States. I've never thought of looking for this type of material there.

[+ FreshFluff]

entire series of individual models mostly taken by one (gross) guy who lived somewhere above the store who photographed street boys or any boy in need of some quick $$ in his apt, (instantly recognizable bc they were all photographed in the same apt on the same ratty sofa with the same ratty towels spread out)

 

"This episode was considered disturbing enough for Conrad Bain to present a parental warning at the beginning. Even the narrator who catches us up on the action from Part One of this two-parter sounds kinda creepy, setting the appropriately dark tone for Gordon Jump (loveable, bumbling “Big Guy” Mr. Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati) to portray a bicycle store-owning pedophile. Mr. Horton lures young boys to his store with free accessories for their rides as well as free pizza, ice cream and … wine. (Cue the ominous music.) Arnold and his friend Dudley fall prey to his tactics and soon they’re shirtless, playing Tarzan, and posing for Polaroids."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWG4rrkL0I

Edited April 2, 2018 by FreshFluff

[+ Tarte Gogo]

Impressive. I had forgotten how TV series in the eighties were not all about entertainement, but some were deeply educational. Is there the equivalent for kids these days?

"This episode was considered disturbing enough for Conrad Bain to present a parental warning at the beginning. Even the narrator who catches us up on the action from Part One of this two-parter sounds kinda creepy, setting the appropriately dark tone for Gordon Jump (loveable, bumbling “Big Guy” Mr. Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati) to portray a bicycle store-owning pedophile. Mr. Horton lures young boys to his store with free accessories for their rides as well as free pizza, ice cream and … wine. (Cue the ominous music.) Arnold and his friend Dudley fall prey to his tactics and soon they’re shirtless, playing Tarzan, and posing for Polaroids."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWG4rrkL0I

[+ FreshFluff]

Impressive. I had forgotten how TV series in the eighties were not all about entertainement, but some were deeply educational. Is there the equivalent for kids these days?

 

Times have changed. The producers saw nothing wrong with putting a laugh track throughout, including the part in which the detective walks into the bathroom to search for the boy, who it turns out had just been molested.

 

As for an equivalent, probably not. The market is too fragmented.

[+ FreshFluff]

There's a huge used bookstore in Detroit, John King books, in a four-or-five story tall warehouse near downtown. It advertises itself as the biggest used bookstore in the United States. I've never thought of looking for this type of material there.

 

The Strand in NYC is huge too, but I doubt they stock this kind of thing either.