Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris Tapa dura - 1985

Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1985, hardcover, xxvi-417 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, stray marginal ink mark to one page. Dustjacket shows fade to spine, slight edge nicks, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. The author examines the imposition by the Paris police in the 19th century of an extralegal administrative system specific to sex workers including registration, medical examination, and the periodic detention of all working-class prostitutes, then further demonstrates how this system not only deprived prostitutes of their civil rights but encroached upon the rights of all working women who, by the standards and definitions of the police themselves, exhibited suspicious moral character. Illustrated with 29 statistical tables. Appended: Arrest and Inscription Statistics, Letters from Revolutionary Prisons, Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780691054391

Princeton University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Publisher's hardback in very good condition, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr, 1985 hardback book and dust jacket in near fine condition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.