Stallion Books #204 Marijuana Girl pseudonymous author "N.R. De Mexico." 1951

Marijuana Girl — Stallion Books #204

This is a reprint edition of the pulp cult classic Marijuana Girl, credited to pseudonymous author "N.R. De Mexico." Cannabis Dope Drug sleaze paperback

Original edition: The novel first appeared in 1951 as Uni-Book No. 19, published by Universal Publishing in New York, a digest-format paperback with a 35¢ cover price.

tallion Books #204 (the one you're asking about): This was the reprint that followed the original Uni-Book edition, also in digest format. It was issued in 1951 as the Canadian issue of the book, since the American version had been Uni-Book No. 19. Some listings describe a Stallion second edition dated 1954. It includes 5 pages of ads and was published by Stallion Books / Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation.

The story: It's about a "fresh and fetching" seventeen-year-old girl who gets "hooked" on marijuana at the hands of an older man out to seduce her, then descends into "the path of degeneracy," ultimately "trading herself, body and soul for the drugs she had to have."

Notoriety: The book became genuinely infamous — it served as Exhibit A in Congressman Ezekiel Gathings's House Select Committee investigating pulp literature, which called it "A Manual of Instruction for Potential Narcotic Addicts."

Authorship mystery: For decades the author's identity was debated — one guess was pulp writer Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds — but recent research identifies him as Robert Campbell Bragg (1918-1954), who went by "Bob De Mexico," lived in Greenwich Village, and was friends with Jack Kerouac. This was confirmed decades later by the author's own son

Collectibility: It's considered a scarce digest-format edition of a classic pulp novel, and all editions are considered scarce and highly prized by collectors of pulp and digest paperbacks.