THE STERILE SUN
Book Details + Condition: The Vanguard Press (New York). First Edition, 1936. Hardcover. 156 pages. Light blue boards, unmarked. "Sterile Sun" focuses on prostitution. One by one, author Caroline Slade takes the viewpoint of three prostitutes: Sue, a 14-year-old runaway; Allie, a veteran of the streets who strenuously defends herself and her daughter; and Winkie, who filters everything through a romantic haze to avoid dealing with the reality of her situation. Slade wrote for the dispossessed, exploited, and impoverished Americans of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1936, when Slade was 50, her first book "Sterile Sun" was published. Due to the nature of the main storyline, an account of a “wayward girl” who slips into prostitution, the publisher Vanguard Press printed a disclaimer on the dust jacket: “STERILE SUN is issued in a special edition, the sale of which is limited to physicians, psychologists and sociologists.” An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; light wear to boards; interior is clean and free of markings.
