Jacob Brussel

Jacob Brussel (fl. 1940s) was an antiquarian bookseller and publisher in New York whose firm J.R. Brussel also dealt in pornography. He published a pirated edition of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and the first part of Oragenitalism by Gershon Legman in 1940, but was raided and jailed for three years.

References

• Mikita Brottman, Funny peculiar: Gershon Legman and the psychopathology of humor, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0881634042, pp.5-7,31
• Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Serpents in the garden: liaisons with culture & sex, AK Press, 2004, ISBN 1902593944, pp.255-256
• Lawrence J. Shifreen, Roger Jackson, Henry Miller: a bibliography of primary sources, Alyscamps Press, 1993, pp.11-12