Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 494

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(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
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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.