Sheldon Abbott - The Women Were Willing
Saber Books SA-49, 1963
Cover Artist: Bill Edwards
"Fran's filmy attire made it necessary for her to remain behind the door until I had entered and she had closed it, secluding us snuggly for the night."
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Sin on the Continent
Europa Books 1102, 1963
Cover Artist: Bill Edwards
"A blunder of indiscretion turned the life of Tom Slater into a temporary diversion for bored wives of traveling businessmen."
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Mark Savage - Bartered Sin
Saber Tropic Books 902, 1962
Cover Artist: unknown... probably Bill Edwards
"Myra had got him one promotion, and was now dangling the promise of another - the big one - if Trey would cater to her sexual needs..."
Mark Savage was a pseudonym of I.G. Chur
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Oscar Peck - Sex Life of a Cop
Saber Books SA-11, 1959
Cover Artist: uncredited; likely Bill Edwards
"This was no ordinary necking party they'd broken up. Before them stood their enraged boss—the Chief of Police—and some woman."
Oscar Peck was a pseudonym of Sanford Aday. However, Joe D. Kinney is listed in the Catalog of Copyrights as the author.
Sanford E. Aday was a failed writer turned publisher and distributor whose softcore imprints included 'Fabian', 'Saber' and 'Vega'.
Probably no one has given the FBI more trouble in the obscenity area than Sanford E. Aday. The most infamous of his books was "The Sex Life of a Cop" by Oscar Peck. Innocuous by today's standards, by Cold War-standards it was evidence of Satan's influence on American culture. Prosecuted by the Justice Department in 1963, Aday was indicted on 18 counts but convicted only on 5. Of the 8 books named in the indictment, 'Sex Life of a Cop' was the only one found obscene under the Roth* legal formula.
*(In 1957 the US Supreme Court upheld Samuel Roth's conviction for manufacturing and selling obscene material. The Court rejected Roth's argument that obscenity was protected by the First Amendment. In 'Roth' the Court developed a 3-part formula for defining obscenity: (1) the material had to appeal to the prurient interest of the average person, (2) violate contemporary community standards and (3) be without redeeming social value.)
Aday and partner Wallace de Ortega Maxey were both fined $25,000 and sentenced to 25 years in prison; the stiffest sentence in US history for obscenity. (They did not have to serve their full terms.)
Aday belonged to the early gay rights Mattachine Society with Ortega Maxey. Maxey was a retired Catholic priest who became minister of the Universalist Church in Los Angeles where the Mattachine Society held its meetings.
Aday was among the first publishers to openly release gay and lesbian-themed books.
(excerpted from "West Coast Blue" by Stephen J. Gertz in "Sin-A-Rama".)
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Robert Vaughan - Girls of Carnation House
Saber Books SA-55, 1964
Cover Artist: unknown ... probably Bill Edwards
From an interview with Robert Vaughan - westernfictionreview.blogspot.com/2010/03/interview-rober...:
"My first novel was an action/adventure novel about a bar in Korea where all the bar-girls were N. Korean spies. It was called Girls of Carnation House...published when I was 19."
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