It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to offer or to exhibit for sale, in sealed form, or in any form which indicates that the sale thereof is surreptitious or contrary to law, any book, pamphlet, or literature of any kind bearing the title of some well- known book of salacious character, or bearing the title of a book of which the sale is prohibited, or bearing the title of a book of which the contents are actually lewd, lascivious, obscene, immoral, or indecent. It shall likewise be unlawful to sell, or to offer or exhibit for sale, any book, pamphlet, or literature of any kind having anything about it which indicates that its contents are of an obscene, immoral, lewd, lascivious, or indecent character, or to sell, or to offer or exhibit for sale, any book, pamphlet, or literature of any kind under the guise or pretense that the same is obscene, immoral, lewd, lascivious, or indecent, or in a manner that indicates concealment of anything as contrary to law or immoral contained therein, or to use any pretense, trick, fraud, artifice, or device to convey the impression that such book, pamphlet, or literature is lewd, lascivious, indecent, obscene, or immoral, whether such pretense, trick, fraud, artifice or device is a misrepresentation in regard to the contents of the same or not.
(Prior code § 192-10)