The Lively Commerce: Prostitution in the United States

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; x, 320, [6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a bit of light overall shelfwear. Serious study of prostitution as a social problem, as a profession, as an institution, and as a way of life. Written by a professor of sociology at the City College of New York and a prostitution investigator in the profession for 50 years.