Scouts in Bondage

[Ya Sam]

Short of a stocking filler?


Emine Saner
Thursday December 21, 2006
The Guardian


When Michael Bell ran an antiquarian bookshop in Lewes, east Sussex, the 
collection of amusingly titled old books he kept in his window proved so 
popular with local people that he decided to share them with the rest of us 
in a book, just published - Scouts in Bondage (named after one of said 
books).
What has become of us? It's sad that we have become so smutty-minded and 
giggly about such titles as How Nell Scored, Fairies I Have Met, The Dangers 
of Cruising and Muffs and Morals, just some of the 45 featured books that 
recall a more innocent era in publishing. But not to worry about all that. 
I'm off to track down a copy of a 1931 adventure story, Invisible Dick 
(chapter two: The Vanishing Helmet). Phnar, Phnar.


http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1976669,00.html

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