Export Canadian Paperback Originals - Part V

In part IV of this series of posts I discussed three News Stand Library books published by Toronto's Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. I identified them as paperback originals which turns out to be wrong. Each of them had been published earlier under different author names. My thanks to Kenneth R. Johnson who saw the errors and took the time to let me know about them. Kenneth is the creator of the best Peggy Gaddis bibliography (a challenging task) and the fascinating The Digest Index.

Lust for Love (NSL 151) by Donna Simpson was first published as by Wright Williams (Wallace E. Watkins) as an unnumbered Stork Original Novel in 1949 by Star Publications Inc. of New York.

Everybody Loves Irene (NSL 152) by George Tremblay was first published in 1950 as by Wright Williams by New York's Quarter Books Inc. as Quarter Book 62.

Suzy Needs a Man (NSL 153) by Martha Knowles was first published as by Joan Sherman (Peggy Gaddis) as an unnumbered Exotic Novel in August 1950 by New York's Astro Distributing Corp.

Here are two Export books that I know to be PBOs. They are the two anthologies that Export published. Neither has a credited editor. Comments on the Kinsey Report is not a reprint of the more famous Signet version published earlier in 1948. Here are the contents:

7-22 COMMENTS ON THE KINSEY REPORT John R. Christie;
23- 28 MECHANICS OF SEX Marion Edwards;
29-36 STUDY OF THE SEX GLANDS Dr. D.A. Downing;
37-41 BIOLOGICAL NERVOUSNESS IN MAN Dr. Thomas Brooks;
42-47 WHY SOME MEN ARE IMPOTENT;
48-50 FIRST AIDS TO THE IMPOTENT Stephen G. Low;
51-53 EXHIBITIONISM;
54-58 MISTAKEN MALES;
59-65 WHAT IS SEX ATTTRACTION?;
66-74 SEX SECRECY IS NO ANSWER Joseph Lander, M.D.;
75-83 THE SANE WAY IN SEX TEACHING Frances Bruce Strain;
84-92 YOUTH LOOKS AT SEX Grace Verne Silver;
93-97 SEX AND THE CHILD Herman H. Rubin, M.D.;
98-103 MEN ARE MONAGAMOUS Lawrence Gould;
104-108 BLAME THE MAN;
109-114 HAS WOMAN A MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE OVER MAN? Charles Lewis;
115-122 THE LOVE RIGHTS OF WOMAN Havelock Ellis;
123-130 HOW TO COMBAT THE SEX CRIME WAVE Charles Harris.

The stories in Spicy Detective Stories have been reprinted from the May 1937 issue of the American pulp of the same name. So while the contents are not original this is the first time in book form. Contents of Spicy Detective Stories (notwithstanding the front cover there are nine not eight Spicy Stories):

5-24 Silk Stocking Clue by N. Wooton Poge;
25-40 Murder Debt by Ellery Watson Calder;
41-58 The Thin Dame by Robert A. Garron;
59-78 Gypsum Blizzard by Robert Leslie Bellam;
79-96 Lady Dick by Arthur Wallace;
97-118 Case of the Limber Corpse by Cary Moran;
119-136 Death in the Third Act by Ken Cooper;
137-144 Killer’s Rights by Colby Quinn;
145-160 Star Witness by Peter Grant.

News Stand Library 5 - undated but 1948

News Stand Library 5 back

News Stand Library 123 - August 1950

News Stand Library 123 back