"Scarlet Pansy" and William Faro (publisher); Clement Wood & Samuel Roth

Mon Jan 10 12:41:23 UTC 2005

Wood & Goddard's Dictionary of American Slang (1926) is a booklet of secondary interest. HDAS cites it when appropriate.

JL

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The NYPL was open again Sunday (1-5:45 p.m.), but I didn't get there early =20
enough to do much. I have SCARLET PANSY on reserve.
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The book mentioned here is A SCARLET PANSY (New York: W. Faro 1933) by =20
Robert Scully. The publisher is interesting. Another 1933 "W. Faro" book is=20=
the =20
famous ANECDOTA AMERICANA: FIVE HUNDRED STORIES FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF THE FIV=
E =20
HUNDRED NATIONS THAT COMPRISE AMERICA.
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Other titles:
... =20
STONE WALLS DO NOT: THE CHRONICLE OF A CAPTIVITY (1930) by Samuel Roth
LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER: A DRAMATIZATION OF HIS VERSION OF D. H. LAWRENCE'S=20
NOVEL (1931) by Samuel Roth =20
THE INTIMATE JOURNAL OF RUDOLPH VALENTINO (1931)
BODY: A NEW STUDY, IN NARRATIVE, OF THE ANATOMY OF SOCIETY (1931) by Daniel=20=
=20
Quilter
A GENTLEMAN IN A BLACK SKIN (1932) by Donna McKay
WOMAN'S DOCTOR (1933) by Dr. Walter Lennox.
CELESTINE, BEING THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1933) by Octave Mirbeau
A YOUNG MAN ABOUT TO COMMIT SUICIDE (1932) by Anthony Gudaitis
MY HEART IN MY THROAT: THE STORY OF A STRANGE CAPTIVITY (1932) by Lydia =20
Lindgren
WARREN GAMALIEL:HARDING (1932) by Clement Wood
CIRCULATION: AN UNCENSORED STORY OF A NEWSPAPER OFFICE (1932) by Mary Lee =20
Dutcher
THE GREAT LINDBERGH HULLABALOO: AN UNORTHODOX ACCOUNT (1932) by Laura Vitra=
y
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Most of the books appear to be written by publisher Samuel Roth (1893-1974)=20=
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and Clement Wood (1888-1950). Is anyone familiar with Wood's slang work? Did=
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Roth influence the word "gay"? Roth edited these magazines:
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Title Beau : the man's magazine : devoted to the comforts and luxuries=20
of living / edited by Samuel Roth. Imprint New York : The Beau Pub. Co.,=20
1926-1927.
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Title Two worlds. Imprint =20
New York : Two Worlds Pub. Co., c1925-
Location Humanities-Genrl Res Vol./date Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1925)- =20
Descript 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm. Frequency Quarterly Note Ceased with v. 2, n=
o. 8=20
(June 1927). "A literary quarterly devoted to the increase of the gaiety o=
f =20
nations." Title from cover. Edited by Samuel Roth; contributing editors:=
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Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer. Also issued in reprint ed.=
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and on microfiche. =20
Published concurrently in 1926-1927 with Two worlds monthly, also edited by=
=20
Samuel Roth.
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Clement Wood published:
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Title A Dictionary of American slang / Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard.=
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Imprint =20
Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1926.
Location Humanities-Genrl Res Descript 64 p. ; 13 cm.
=20
...
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Author _Wood, Clement, 1888-1950._=20
(http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/aWood,+Clement,+1888-1950./awood+clement+1888=
-1950/-5,-1,0,B/browse) Title Sexual=20
relations in the Southern States. Imprint =20
Girard, Kan., Haldeman-Julius Publications [c1929]
...
...
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(GOOGLE)
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_Tomfolio.com: Erotica (no viewable graphics): Erotic Literature_=20
(http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=3D889)=20
... This version is called a Samuel Roth edition as originally published by=
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William
Faro, Inc. The copyright page states revised 1930 by William Faro, Inc. ...=
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www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=3D889 - 41k - _Cached_=20
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=3Dcache:qW9Z_JZVuSIJ:www.tomfolio.com/bookss=
ub.asp?subid=3D889+"samuel
+roth"+faro&hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF-8) - _Similar pages_=20
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&c2coff=3D1&q=3Drelate=
d:www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=3D889)=20
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... =20
_Highlights from the collections - Archive Awareness month - The ..._=20
(http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html)=20
... volume is actually a set of printed sheets of an expurgated piracy of=20
the novel,
prepared by Samuel Roth and published under the imprint of William Faro in=
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1930 ...=20
www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/ online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html - 19k -=20
_Cached_=20
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=3Dcache:EdxfTilhYEgJ:www.nottingham.ac.uk/ms=
s/online/aam/aam/aam_notthighlights.html+"samuel+roth"+faro&hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF=
-8) =20
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... =20
_TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Thick Blue Volume -- Dec. 28 ..._=20
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,753208,00.html)=20
... Hamill took his manuscript to a notorious Samuel Roth who, under the =20
name
of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications. ...=20
www.time.com/time/archive/ preview/0,10987,753208,00.html - _Similar pages_=
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(http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&c2coff=3D1&q=3Drelate=
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m/time/archive/preview/0,10987,753208,00.html) =20
... =20
_The Private Life of Frank Harris_=20
(http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=3Dsr_bio)=20
... "William Faro" was Samuel Roth himself. Back to list of books These=20
pages are the
fruit of harmless drudgery by Alfred Armstrong: alfred at oddbooks.co.uk=20
www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=3Dsr_bio - 4k - _Cached_=20
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=3Dcache:t_ZqPMJprcEJ:www.oddbooks.co.uk/harr=
is/edition
.php3?book_key=3Dsr_bio+"samuel+roth"+faro&hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF-8) - _Similar p=
ages_=20
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&c2coff=3D1&q=3Drelate=
d:www.oddbooks
.co.uk/harris/edition.php3?book_key=3Dsr_bio) =20
...=20
...=20
(GOOGLE GROUPS)=20
...=20
_Jewish influence in the mass media II_=20
(http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_frm/thread/26f9d=
3035ad77a86/d8c31b9a1393dbb8?q=3D"samuel+r
oth"+faro&_done=3D/groups?q=3D"samuel+roth"+faro&hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&c2=
coff=3D1&sa=3DN&
tab=3Dwg&&_doneTitle=3DBack+to+Search&&d#d8c31b9a1393dbb8) =20
... Samuel Roth is noteworthy in the pornography trade for many reasons. ..=
.=20
J., 2000, p.
31] Jewish erotica book publishers included William Faro, Panurge, Falstaff=
=20
... =20
_soc.culture.usa_ (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa) -=20
Jan 15 2002, 1:04 pm by M.T.T.=20
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Samuel Roth is noteworthy in the pornography trade for many reasons.=20
Although
some might portray him as a free speech hero, he pirated editions of both=20
James
Joyce's Ulysses and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, to the protest=
=20
of both
the Joyce and Lawrence estates. Imprisoned twice, 1937-1939 and 1957-61,=20
Roth was
labeled "the dirtiest pig in the world" and "the louse of Lewisburg [prison=
]"
[GERTZMAN, J., 2000, p. 219] Roth in 1936 "received the most severe prison=20
sentence
possible under the law for brazenly using the Postal Service to distribute
flagrantly obscene books ... Roth was the most often incarcerated, the most
feckless, and quite likely the most resourceful booklegger of his time, =20
challenging
moral and legal authorities with a quixotic bravado." [GERTZMAN, J., 1999,=20
p. 22]
(...)
Sam Roth's grandson is none other than Prof. James Kugel, the eminent =20
Bible scholar at Harvard University.
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...
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_http://12.11.184.13/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents=
/0
2397916.htm_=20
(http://12.11.184.13/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents=
/02397916.htm)=20
ROTH IS A GREAT American icon of perversity. He was a successful =20
entrepreneur who took enormous pride in the fact that he always worked for =20=
himself =E2=80=94=20
peddling pornography. He was a self-taught man, and used his skills to writ=
e=20
tawdry erotica.
(...)
His first magazine, Beau, a sophisticated precursor to Esquire, attracted=20
attention. But it was his second, Two Worlds, in which he serialized sectio=
ns=20
of Joyce=E2=80=99s Ulysses, that got him in trouble.
(...)
IT=E2=80=99S NO SURPRISE that Samuel Roth=E2=80=99s story is now mostly lost=
. Except for =20
occasional footnote references in works on the history of censorship and =20
coverage in Jay A. Gertzman=E2=80=99s superlative book Bookleggers and Smuth=
ounds: The=20
Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 (University of Pennsylvania, 1999), Roth is not=20
remembered at all.

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