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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

750 numbered copies Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 112 pp. From the blurb: "In 1953 Maurice Girodias, the son of Jack Kahane whose Obelisk Press had been the first publisher to take on the work of Henry Miller, founded his own company, the Olympia Press, in Paris. So began one of the most extraordinary and influential publishing houses of our age. With an editorial eye for the talented but neglected avant garde writer which was the envy of editors in far more prestigious houses, and a penchant for literary erotica with which he funded his more ambitious publications, Girodias set about building a unique list and between 1953 and 1966 the Olympia Press not only contributed significantly to the period's dramatic changes in social and sexual mores but also helped establish the reputations of some of the 20th century's most important and challenging writers. Olympia was the first publisher in English of landmark books such as Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy, and the famous Story of O, as well as the publisher of works by a host other prominent figures in modern literature, notably Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Queneau, Lawrence Durrell, Gregory Corso, Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi. Patrick Kearney's bibliography, fully indexed and annotated and compiled to the highest scholarly standards, includes the details of every known publication of the Paris Olympia Press, not only the date of publication and physical specifications, but also such details as, for example, the real names of Olympia's many pseudonymous authors. Supplemented by Kearney's lucid and urbane introduction, which mixes fascinating social history and anecdote with rigorous bibliographical research, and a substantial preface by Maurice Girodias himself in which he recalls the pioneering days of Olympia and engages with the difficult and topical question of censorship, this book is an essential library purchase and will also prove invaluable to the private collector." Copy No.70. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise /Fine in a dustwrapper which is sunned around the spine and slightly sunned at the top edge.…

Limited edition of 750 numbered copies Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 112 pp. From the blurb: "In 1953 Maurice Girodias, the son of Jack Kahane whose Obelisk Press had been the first publisher to take on the work of Henry Miller, founded his own company, the Olympia Press, in Paris. So began one of the most extraordinary and influential publishing houses of our age. With an editorial eye for the talented but neglected avant garde writer which was the envy of editors in far more prestigious houses, and a penchant for literary erotica with which he funded his more ambitious publications, Girodias set about building a unique list and between 1953 and 1966 the Olympia Press not only contributed significantly to the period's dramatic changes in social and sexual mores but also helped establish the reputations of some of the 20th century's most important and challenging writers. Olympia was the first publisher in English of landmark books such as Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy, and the famous Story of O, as well as the publisher of works by a host other prominent figures in modern literature, notably Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Queneau, Lawrence Durrell, Gregory Corso, Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi. Patrick Kearney's bibliography, fully indexed and annotated and compiled to the highest scholarly standards, includes the details of every known publication of the Paris Olympia Press, not only the date of publication and physical specifications, but also such details as, for example, the real names of Olympia's many pseudonymous authors. Supplemented by Kearney's lucid and urbane introduction, which mixes fascinating social history and anecdote with rigorous bibliographical research, and a substantial preface by Maurice Girodias himself in which he recalls the pioneering days of Olympia and engages with the difficult and topical question of censorship, this book is an essential library purchase and will also prove invaluable to the private collector." Copy No. 266. bookseller's small label on verso of front free endpaper, top edge slightly spotted, otherwise Very Good in a dustwrapper which is faded around the spine.…