"Obscene Matter Sent through the Mail" (1959)

Washington, D.C., US: Government Printing Office (chapbook, report), 1959.
9.125" x 5.75", 68 pages, stapled binding, "44934".

Obscene Matter Sent through the Mail, a "Report to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service by the Subcommittee on Postal Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session". This was printed in September 1959 for the use of the committee.

This was compiled for discussion in the US House of Representatives in 1959, and between pages 21 and 26 includes the Departmental Decision on the case of Big Table, issue 1, Spring 1959, which suggested that it was obscene and could not be mailed. This would later get overturned. 

William S. Burroughs and his Naked Lunch is mentioned in a number of spots between these pages, in the context of the merits of the work. 

This copy was formerly owned by Henry Guze (d. 1970), psychoanalyst and adjunct professor of anthropology at Drew University, and has his signature and the ex-libris stamps of both him and his wife. This copy was acquired from Between the Covers Rare Books (Gloucester City, New Jersey, US).