Books Update: Re-Working our Crime, Spies & Sleaze Category: Rare Midwood Sleaze with 10 pages of Frazetta art
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze category for something rather exceptional. The US publisher Midwood specialised in material we categorise as ‘sleaze’ and this certainly fits the bill. Two novels in one book: Perfumed by Jason Hytes (‘Three wives – three promiscuous ways to spend an afternoon.’) and Pampered by Kimberly Kemp (‘Husband and wife sharing the same mistress.’). All Midwoods are enthusiastically collected, but this one especially so due to the ten interior black and white full page illustrations by Frank Frazetta (five of which are reproduced below). These, and the extreme rarity of this title, make it one of the most highly prized volumes from this niche publisher. A pretty good copy; minor creasing at the spine and very slight binding separation towards the rear, but no loose pages.
PICTURED: SOLD
JASON HYTES – PERFUMED
KIMBERLY KEMP – PAMPERED
Midwood 1963 1st US PB VG £125