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Dear Steve
I found your blog about erotic books by coincidence when searching for info about some Swedish publications on the same subject.
It is an impressive work you have done here in this blog gathering so much info.
I am a small scale collector of some Swedish series erotic books from the 60s and early 70s. Some of these are reissues of titels from the “Trawler Companion” series. That’s how I found your page. I do not have a lot money to put into this hobby but one can still find a good samples with a bit of luck here in sweden
Can I use some some facts from your blog for my data sheets?
If you are interested can I supply some info and scans of the Swedish reissues.
Best Regards
Hans J
Hi Hans
Thanks for the communication, you are welcome to use anything from my blog.. Happy to have anything you would like to share. Are you aware of Pat Kearney’s” Scissors and Paste” site where he has some information about other Olympia imprints. LINK
http://www.scissors-and-paste.net/
He has Danish and Dutch but not Swedish Olympia.
Regards
Steve
Hello Steve
Thanks for your answer. The use of the info will be only in my personal arcive. Nothing that will be published..
I will contact Pat Kearney about this.
From what country are you from? (Just a bit curious)
Best Regards
Hans Jacobsson
Hi again Hans I am from Storbritannien
POST TO STEVE M. 5/9/24
Greetings Steve. Your blog is wonderful. I thought Kearney was down to the details. I am into JP Donleavy. I had a site called the JP Donleavy Compendium online for about 12 years but had to retire it as I have major health issues. However I have times of remission and a fellow from Ireland named Rory Feehan wants to revive the site. I’ll be helping as much as I can.
You know Donleavy’s association with Olympia Press. I know quite a bit about that, but it’s fragmented with gaps in some places that I hope you would be kind enough to help me with.
Fist thing off the top of my head is about the variant Ginger Man 1st. I bought the regular Traveler’s Companion edition from Patrick Kearney, (along with all the other editions, including Ophelia) but I don’t have, nor have I seen for sale the variant, which I believe has at least a affixed price change on the cover, if not something else different inside. I assume you know something about this rarity?
There exists a really rare bird: the copies Donleavy, in anger, tore out the pages advertising the other titles in The Traveler’s Companion series. One of these would be a real treasure if you have any leads.
A co-JPD-‘holic, Bill Dunn, published a book called The Ginger Man Papers with Lilliput Press, Dublin. Outside of The National Library of Ireland, that inherited Donleavy’s vast archive, Bill has the world’s largest JPD collection. He’s hot to find Olympia catalogs but hasn’t had any luck. I’d like to receive the PDFs you mention are available to send to him so he knows what he’s looking for. Any leads on these for sale?
Anything Donleavy-related you might have would be of great interest. I have always thought a blow by blow account of the many-year TGM publication rights war between the author and Olympia Press would make for a great feature film, but Philip Donleavy (Eldest of 2 children inheriting the estate) is having enough trouble getting The Ginger Man itself on the big screen, with once-thought production hero Jonny Depp dragging his Hollywood feet.
Anyway, Donleavy didn’t say much in his letters and journals about what he did with Olympia after the surprise win of ownership at auction. He talks about Girodias trying to make a deal to get the press back and that he gave rights back to the published authors, but with no details. He claims that the victory was just to put a scalp on his wall. I’m very interested in what happened to Olympia Press after that.
Did JPD get control of all of Olympia Press, including the US? And other imprints such as Ophelia? If so, I assume he killed the whole family.
As he had quite a bit of royalty money at that time, I thought he might publish an Olympia Press edition of The Ginger Man in the literary series, as a sort of “Fuck you, Girodias” rubbing it in gesture, but I guess he just wanted to put as much behind him as possible.
Anyway, again, great site. And l look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
David Hartzeim – ulpcta102@gmail.com
Oh, what do you think about working with WordPress. We’re thinking of going with them.