After Boston banned his novel Oil!, Upton Sinclair took to the city's streetsselling a special "fig leaf" edition. Sinclair had solid fig leaves printed onpages in place of objectionable text.
Morris L. Ernst (left, holding book) was one of the most active attorneys forthe anti-censorship cause during the interwar years. In this 1935 photograph,from the New York Journal American, Ernst defends the Gustavo Flaubert'sNovember.
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1934) was deemed obscene by the United StatesCustoms Department and as such could not be brought into the United States. Thebook was cleared of obscenity charges by the United States Supreme Court in1964.
This 1942 poster reminded Americans of the widespread 1933 Nazi book burningsand presented books as playing a fundamental role in the fight against tyranny.Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.
Samuel Roth published this pirated edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Thisedition didn't have D. H. Lawrence's authorization and was the second piratededition Roth produced.