{"id":3632,"date":"2014-01-10T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:47:50","slug":"snow-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/01\/10\/snow-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Snow vogue<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3634\" style=\"margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-1-699x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"303\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. Pictured here is <em>Snow vogue<\/em>, written by one Darcy Glinto and published in London by Wells Gardner in 1941. Copies are held at only three other libraries. It\u2019s the tale of Dario, a ruthless gangster who, as the title suggests, gets involved in peddling cocaine. Violence, victimization, and death inevitably ensue. The jacket copy promises <em>Snow vogue<\/em> to be \u201cjust as slick and twice as fast as any other gangster story. That is because Dario was that kind of man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cDarcy Glinto\u201d is, of course, too good to be true. It\u2019s a pseudonym for Harold Ernest Kelly (1899-1969), an author and freelance journalist who wrote in the crime, sci-fi, and Western genres, among others, under a host of assumed names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3635\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-2-738x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-2-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-2-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2014\/01\/Snow-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harold Ernest Kelly<em>. Snow vogue<\/em>.\u00a0London:\u00a0Wells Gardner, Darton &amp; Co.,\u00a0[1941]. <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013808886\" target=\"_blank\">EC9.K2965.941s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><em>Thanks to rare book ca<\/em><em>taloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. 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