[Erotica][Underground Publishing]
 
Pocket Proto-Porn (6 vintage adult pinup digest magazines)
 
New York: Various Publishers, 1960s. First Editions/printings, softcover 12mo, stapled, about 32pp, b/w t/o, color wrappers. Vintage adult pocket-sized magazines featuring glamour photography of nude and seminude women, often in lingerie, robes, high heels. Hundreds of similar slightly larger digest magazines were produced by fly-by-night operations beginning in the late 1950s, mainly around New York, most by Leonard Burtman. Earlier digest examples maintained airbrushing techniques rolled over from nudist magazines, much of the posing naturally obscuring otherwise censored areas. Nearly all were packaged as "figure studies" for the art or photography enthusiast. These issues are somewhat scarcer than the standard digests. Presenting Jodi Britt, Gerard Pub.; Presenting Toni Reece, London Pub., Lorraine Burnette; Preseting Toni Kay, Picadilly Pub.; Magnificent Melita, Pearlite Enterprises; Gals, No. 1, Marr Publishing (Marno); Primitive Tonita Du Val, Pearilte Enterprises. Very Good Plus overall, faint rubbing and toning, a few short creases, with one issue Good only. For mature, consenting audiences.