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[Jonathan Lighter]

1955  _Juvenile Delinquency (Obscene and Pornographic Materials) :
Hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S., Eighty-Fourth
Congress, First Session_  [Wash. D.C.: GPO, 1955] 374:  I would say the
most prevalent would be the type known to us [on the LAPD], or in the
language of the people who deal in it, as the Tijuana Bible, which is a
small booklet, about 2 by 3 inches, of a cartoon type, that is very lewd or
very obscene in its character.

JL




On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:30 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Tijuana Bible"
>
> The same as or different from an
>
> "Eight-Page Bible"?
>
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