Having suffered a stroke last year, I was forced to consider what would happen to my collection should I die. A serious enough issue, given tales of shark like dealers descending on the recently bereaved and picking off the prized items from remaining partners who have no idea of what to do with the books, and even less idea of the potential value.
This is especially true of erotica as there is an understandable embarrassment, attached to such material, especially illustrated books, and I have heard of some such material being destroyed to avoid having to deal with it, and though this is perhaps the best disposal for modern pornography, this is less of a problem with my Paris Olympia Press collection as they are 99% without illustrations.
Having explored possible methods of disposal, I had been in negotiation with Bonhams of London with a view to the collection going to auction this June, when a combination of my own health issues and an extended family crisis prevented me from cataloguing the books, a task that Bonhams offered to cover, but I really wanted to complete myself.
So i find myself delaying the selling of the collection, and almost immediately other items turn up, within the past month or so, I have obtained a catalogue that I do not have a copy of, one of the missing Teaser magazines and a much improved copy of “The Castle of the end of Love”, a very hard to find Ophelia Press title.
I must admit to a sense of relief at still having the collection, as after so many decades of collecting the loss would be hard to take. It my be that I will reconsider next year, which gives me more time to locate the few missing items that would allow me to complete. Which also means that I will continue with this site, given that its sworn purpose is to assist with completing my Paris Olympia collection, something that is easy to forget, given that the vast majority of the books that I list are nothing to do with the Olympia Press at all.
So to give me a reason to carry on, please remember to look out for Paris Olympia material for me. And if you have any erotica (not photographic pornography please) that you want rid of then complete a contact form and I may be able to assist.
Below is an image of my Paris Olympia Press collection as of today. Coming soon recent finds and some very rare illustrated erotica.
A truly pristine item of ephemera, and a most welcome addition to my collection. This is a perfect example of the material that I am seeking, this one is courtesy of Arcana Cabana in the Netherlands, who kindly agreed to seperate the price list from an edition of Justine, where it had sat between the leaves, untouched for over 50 years. You can view the Arcana Cabana site below.
Paris Olympia Press, Price list and Order form, Spring 1962.
Printed both sides in black and red on a single sheet of pale yellow card, measuring 27×9 cm. Paris bookshop sticker affixed to base of the form on the verso.
The titles in red are highlighted as new editions due to be published, interestingly, the low number Traveller’s Companion Series titles had been in print since 1955/56, therefore at TC 13 ” The Secret Life of Robinson Crusoe” was formerly entitled “The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe”, at TC 29, “Helen and Desire” was actually reissued as “Desire and Helen”, and at TC 40 ” The Organisation” was reissued as “The New Organisation”. Legend has it that the changes in title of these reprints was a ploy to confuse the Brigade Mondaine, who worked to lists of Olympia titles that had been banned in France, but as few, if any of the officials could read English a simple ploy such as above was enough to throw them off the scent.
You can also see that at TC 57, the sixth volume of Juliette was about to be issued, the slot for TC 58 was held vacant,eventually (in 1965) was occupied by “Juliette” volume seven, but at one stage in (catalogue 1958) it had been scheduled fo a TC edition of Becketts” Watt”. The title at TC 90 planned as ” The Sex Life of Ulysses” eventually came out as “A Bedside Odyssey”.
Another anomaly, under the Othello Books series (numbered 111-116), which were all to be published in 1962, at 116, sits “Sextet” by Hume Parkinson, which was not issued in this series, and appears to been passed over in the Danish imprint “Odyssey Library”, where it was supposed to be published in 1963, eventually turning up as TC 94 the last title to be published in the Travellers Companion Series in 1965.
No mention on this list of any of the Ophelia Press titles, which generally appear to have been run as a seperate enterprise the Ophelia titles are generally themed around flagellation and sado masochism which traditionally sat outside of mainstream erotica.
Such a significant amount of information from such a small piece of paper, and perhaps something of an explanation for my fascination, with the Olympia Press ephemera material.
Paris Olympia Press, Price list and Order form, Spring 1962.
After a long break from the blog, I am back in action more because of circumstances than by plan, but determined to make the most of my enforced idleness, I am updating material related to the collection and still seeking the few items that I do not have. Alongside this I am gathering the rare and obscure and hopefully bizzare items from around the web, to keep the semi-literate amongst you amused.
So just to remind you that the dedicated purpose of this blog is to provide access to information and images from erotica of all types, for free and to people who might not otherwise ever have sight of these books. But the primary purpose is to complete this Paris Olympia Press collection, and now that I need so few book titles, i am very keen to find the ephemera, for example catalogues, flyers, communication on headed paper, busines cards or anything associated with The Paris Olympia Press. l regularly update on new material coming into the collection, and list items that I am looking for under Books Wanted.
Here is an image of the collection in its latest state, please keep looking, If you have an item that you think might be of interest please use the contact form to get in touch.
For me this is exactly what I have been looking for, in a very good year for extremely rare items to complete my collection, here is one item that is amazing to find, and is the real justification for this Blog.
Prospectus for ‘Watt’ a novel in English by Samuel Beckett. Collection Merlin 1953. 12mo. Single sheet prospectus. Fine condition.
Back on to my favourite topic , which is the really rare titles. Something of a peripheral item, the books published or allegedly published, constitute an attempt by Maurice Girodias to avoid the attention of the French authorities, by shifting some of his editions to a Copenhagen printer. As Pat Kearney notes:-“Right up to the end, the French police were snapping at Girodias’s heels, and one of his last publishing efforts in Paris was to have six novels printed in Copenhagen, a desperate attempt to evade the authorities at home and launch a new series called The Odyssey Library. Despite the fact that censorship had been abolished in Denmark not to mention the fact the books were in English the Danish authorities were somehow persuaded by their French counterparts to halt the operation. Most of these novels were later reprinted in New York by the Olympia Press, but copies of the Danish originals, which are amongst the scarcest of the books that Girodias published, do emerge from time to time.” (Patrick Kearney, The Paris Olympia Press. Liverpool University Press 2007) Index Numbers are the actual location of the description in the bibliography.
Now for the first time I have the 4 known titles in my possession at the same time, quite an event, well for me at least, this post gives all the available information on the titles in the series from Pat Kearney’s description below, we know that Whores, Queers and Others was prepared for publication in this series , as the later NY printing carries the distinctive Odyssey Library title page, as for Sextet no one seems to have any idea whether or not it was actually produced other than as the last title in the Paris Traveller’s Companion series.
So go on someone tell me that you have copies of either, photographic evidence will be required, and you would be welcome to donate them to my collection.
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] [three typographic fig leafs] FLESH | RAFFLE by | jim dobbs [two typographic fig leafs] | 1 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
Binding: Matt dark red wrappers, trimmed flush with the book. The front wrapper reproduces the titlepage, except for the following differences. The ornamental border is in white. The central panel where the title, author, &c. are given is in black. The typographic fig leaves are dark red. The title, author, series number and publisher are in white.
[Spine; within a white, black-edged panel, the title and author lettered in black down spine:] FLESH RAFFLE by Jim Dobbs.
[Backwrapper; at foot, lettered in white within a solid black panel:] U.S. dollars 3,60 or equivalent in other currencies. [Printed in small black type at bottom right of backwrapper and at 90° to price panel:] Printed in Denmark | BEHRNDT OFFSET Notes: This is probably the original edition of a novel called Hot Lottery credited to the same author and advertised by the Olympia Press in New York about 1967 as volume 215 of the Traveller’s Companion Series. A comparison of the two books, however, has not yet been undertaken because a copy of the supposed American reprint has not been located. Other books appearing under this pseudonym from other publishers in the United States include In Lust and War (1969) and Island Lust (1969). A third novel, Chateau Venus, was published by the Olympia Press in New York in 1968.
12.2.1 LESSONS IN LOVE Marjorie Cartwright, 1963
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] LESSONS IN | LOVE by Marjorie | Cartwright [two typographic fig leafs] | 2 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
Binding: Matt dark red wrappers, trimmed flush with the book. The front wrapper reproduces the title page, except for the following differences. The ornamental border is in white. The central panel where the title,ornamental border is in white. The central panel where the title, author, &c. are given is in black. The typographic fig leaves are dark red. The title, author, series number and publisher are in white.
[Spine; within a white, black-edged panel, the title and author lettered in black down spine:] LESSONS IN LOVE by Marjorie Cartwright.
[Backwrapper; at foot, lettered in white within a solid black panel:] U.S. dollars 3,60 or equivalent in other currencies. [Printed in small black type at bottom right of backwrapper and at 90° to price panel:] Printed in Denmark | BEHRNDT OFFSET. Notes: Reprinted under the title Rape of the Statue by the Olympia Press in New York in 1968 as no. 104 of the Ophelia Press imprint.
12.3.1 WHORES, QUEERS, AND OTHERS (2 vols.) Philip Barrows [Daniel R. Tuite] Note: No copy known. Existence implied from catalogs and the missing series number 3. Published later by the New York Olympia Press, with a title page in the same Baroque style as the Danish series. It is possible this book was never published in the Odyssey Library series, but first (and only) released by the New York Olympia Press.
12.4.1 SCREAM, MY DARLING, SCREAM Angela Pearson [John Millington-Ward], 1963
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] [two typographic fig leafs] SCREAM, | MY DARLING, | SCREAM ! by | Angela Pearson | 4 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
Collation: 196 pp. No signatures, but [1-11]8, [12]10. The final signature has an additional double leaf, inserted. Printed on white wove paper. Contents: pp. [1,2] blank. p. [3], [two typographic fig leafs] SCREAM,| MY DARLING, | SCREAM ! by | angela pearson,
[Backwrapper; at foot, lettered in white within a solid black panel:] U.S. dollars 3,60 or equivalent in other currencies. [Printed in small black type at bottom right of backwrapper and at 90° to price panel:] Printed in Denmark | BEHRNDT OFFSET.
Scream Back Cover
Published later by the New York Olympia Press
12.5.1 MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: Tor Kung. [Jean Mclean and Jack Gilbert], 1963
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] MY MOTHER | TAUGHT ME | by Tor Kung [two typographic fig leafs] | 5 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
Binding: Matt dark red wrappers, trimmed flush with the book. The front wrapper reproduces the titlepage, except for the following differences. The ornamental border is in white. The central panel where the title, author, &c. are given is in black. The typographic fig leaves are dark red. The title, author, series number and publisher are in white.
[Spine; within a white, black-edged panel, the title and author lettered in black down spine:] MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME by Tor Kung.
[Backwrapper; at foot, lettered in white within a solid black panel:] U.S. dollars 3,60 or equivalent in other currencies. [Printed in small black type at bottom right of backwrapper and at 90° to price panel:] Printed in Denmark | BEHRNDT OFFSET. Note: Published later by the New York Olympia Press.
12.6.1 SEXTET J.Hume Parkinson 1963
Note: No copy known. Existence implied from catalogues and the missing series number 6. Published in 1965 in the Traveller’s Companion Series, Number 94 (5.94)
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Another elusive variant, this one is peculiar in that two editions were issued in quick succession, the first in JUNE 1953 and the second in JULY 1953, the image below is of the JULY 53 edition, which I have 2 copies of, apart from the print dates and the price on the back of the first pritning (no price on the second) both editions are identical, I believe the rapid second printing is an old French publishers con, designed to give the impression that a title is selling particularly well, regardless of the rationale the end result is the same and the first printing is hard to find. I am prepared to exchange multiple titles (with some reservations) for a Very Good copy of this edition, it does however need to be complete with all first edition points as listed below, in the bibliographical description provided as always courtesy of Patrick Kearney, The Paris Olympia Press, The Liverpool University Press 2007. The index number is the actual location of the description in the bibliography.
1.4.1 AMOROUS EXPLOITS OF A YOUNG RAKEHELL Guillaume Apollinaire, 1953
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE | AMOROUS EXPLOITS | of | A YOUNG RAKEHELL | THE OLYMPIA PRESS | 2 bis, rue des Ciseaux, Paris (6e)
Collation: 120 pp. [1]-78, 84. 18.2 x 13.0 cm, all edges trimmed. Printed on white wove paper.
Contents: pp. [1-4] blank. p. [5] AMOROUS EXPLOITS |of | A YOUNG RAKEHELL, reverse blank. p. [7] title, as above. p. [8] [rule] | All rights reserved in all countries..p. [9], CHAPTER ONE, reverse blank. pp. [11]-20, text. p. [21] CHAPTER TWO, reverse blank. pp. [23]-29, text. p. [30] blank. p. [31] CHAPTER THREE, reverse blank. pp. [33]-37, text. p. [38] blank. p. [39] CHAPTER FOUR, reverse blank. pp. [41]-45, text. p. [46] blank. p. [47] CHAPTER FIVE, reverse blank. pp. [49]-54, text. p. [55] CHAPTER SIX, reverse blank. pp. [57]-63, text. p. [64] blank. p. [65]CHAPTER SEVEN, reverse blank. pp. [67]-75, text. p. [76] blank. p. [77] CHAPTER EIGHT, reverse blank. pp. [79]-84, text. p. [85] CHAPTER NINE, reverse blank. pp. [87]-95, text. p. [96] blank. p. [97] CHAPTER TEN, reverse blank. pp. [99]-103, text. p. [104] blank. p. [105] CHAPTER ELEVEN, reverse blank. pp. [107]-110, text. p. [111], THE END, reverse blank. p. [113] table of contents, reverse blank. p. [115] FINISHED PRINTED [sic]| JUNE 1953 | BY IMPRIMERIE RICHARD | 24, RUE STÉPHENSON, PARIS | Dépôt légal : 3e trimestre 1953. pp. [116-120] blank. Binding: Plain white wrappers trimmed flush with body of the book, under dark green dustjacket printed in black, with front wrapper framed by border of white, six-pointed stars. Front cover: GUIL-LAUME APOLLINAIRE | [double rule in white, with thicker lower rule:] Amorous Exploits | of | A YOUNG RAKEHELL [double rule in white, with thicker upper rule:] THE OLYMPIA PRESS‘. Spine: [reading up spine; horizontally:] THE | OLYMPIA | PRESS [reading vertically:] Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell [-] GUILLAUME | APOLLINAIRE. Back cover blank, except for bottom right: PRINTED IN FRANCE | PRICE : 1200 FRANCS.
Notes: A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d‘un jeune Don Juan, an erotic novel that was first published at Paris in 1905 or 1906 by Elias Gaucher. Although generally credited as an original work by Guillaume Apollinaire, it is actually a word-for-word translation by the poet of Kinder-Geilheit. Geständnisse eines Knaben (Berlin: 1891). For details of the German original, see Hugo Hayn and Alfred N. Gotendorf, Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica & Curiosa (München: Georg Müller, 1912-14) vol. 3, pp. 551,2.
Please leave a message on this blog if you are able to offer a copy for trade.
Six small photo illustrated “Girlie Magazines”, photo illustrated with nudes and semi-nudes, images interspersed with excerpts from Paris Olympia Press titles. 2 of the titles, ” The Stripteaser” 1953 and “The Teaser Pure and Simple” 1954 are very common indeed and I will mention them no further here.
The other titles are more elusive. Bibliographical information courtesy of Patrick Kearney, The Paris Olympia Press, The Liverpool University Press 2007. The index numbers are the location of the actual description in the bibliography.
3.2.1 PARIS EXOTIQUE 1953: Collation: Unpaged, but [64] pp. Saddle-stapled with no signatures. 20.0 x 13.0 cm. Printed on off-white, wove paper. Contents: Illustrated profusely throughout with b&w pinup photos, interspersed with Passion de la Nuit, extracted from …et Treize Fois Impure by René Roques. Binding: Glossy coloured photographic wrappers. Front wrapper: Colour photo against a black background of a red-head wrapped in something transparent and with her right hand on her hip. Printed across the top in green caps: PARIS EXOTIQUE. Printed in green at the bottom left: Fr. 150. Back wrapper: Colour photo against a black background of a kneeling brunette dressed in a skimpy Mexican-inspired costumes, complete with sombrero. Printed across the top in orange caps: PARIS EXOTIQUE. Front inside wrapper: PARIS EXOTIQUE | No 1 | ―Passion de la nuit‖ qui nous publions | dans le numéro 1 de Paris Exotique est | extrait du grand roman de René Roques : | …et Treize Fois Impure. Mieux que les | plus grands écrivains modernes qui ont | décrit le désir et la joie charnelle, tels que | Colette, Jules Romains, Erskine Caldwell, | D.-H Lawrence, etc., René Roques a su | peindre avec un lucidité impitoyable la | passion des corps et des esprits. Nul mieux | que lui n‘a su montrer la violence soured du | désir, les ruses de la chair, l‘assouvissement | des coeurs. Son art subtil er pénétrant nous | livre un récit imprégné de mystère et de volupté. | Les ouvrages de René Roques sont en | vente dans toutes les librairies. Ils peuvent | égalemente nous être commandés directement : | …ET TREIZE FOIS IMPURE | VIOL | INERDIT AUX JEUNES FILLES | Chaque volume : Frs 390 | (plus 30 Frs pour frais dřenvoi). | Adresser la commande accompa- | gnée du règlement à OLYMPIA | PRESS, 13, rue Jacob, Paris-6e, | C. Ch. Postaux: Paris 9875-60.. Back inside wrapper: conclusion of extract from …et Treize Fois Impure with, at foot of page: [rule] | Paris Exotique‖ est édité par Olympia Press, |13, rue Jacob, Paris-6e, et imprimé par | l‘imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris | depot legal : 4e trimestre 1953 | Printed in France. Notes: …et Treize Fois Impure, and at least two other novels by Roques, were distributed by the Olympia Press, although the books seem to have published by the author. An English translation, as Ladies at Night, by James O’Leary was published in 1954 by the Olympia Press as vol. 3 of the Atlantic Library series.
3.3.1 PARIS TEASER 1953 Notes: Not seen. Reported to be an English translation of 3.2.1, PARIS EXOTIQUE, above. Known to exist from ban in 1954, photos and BNF records.
3.4.1 THE NEW PARIS TEASER 1954: Collation: Unpaged, but [64] pp. Saddle-stapled with no signatures. 20.0 x 13.0 cm. [Printed on off-white, wove paper?] Contents: Illustrated profusely throughout with b&w pinup photos, interspersed with brief extracts from Olympia Press publications. p. [1] THE NEW | PARIS TEASER | is published by | THE OLYMPIA PRESS | 13, rue Jacob, Paris 6, France | [within a double line box:] All the excerpts published in The New | Stripteaser [sic]| are taken from full-length, completely unexpurgated books published by The | Olympia Press, and available at all bookstores | or by order direct from our Paris offices. The | season’s | publications include important novels | by Henry Miller, the Marquis de Sade, Jean | Genet, etc. | New novels in English to be released in | March, 1954, include the following highly | recommended titles : | LADIES AT NIGHT by René Roques $1.90 | THREE PASSIONATE LOVERS by | René Roques… $1.90 | LUST by Count Palmiro Vicarion… $1.90 | HELEN AND DESIRE by Francis | Lengel… $.190 [sic] | Prepaiment [sic] requested | Catalogues will be provided free on request. [below the box:] Sole distribution for Norway, Sweden and Denmark : | SANGKO – NORDEN | 7 Madvigs Allé, Copenhagen, Denmark | [rule] | The New Paris Teaser, publication non périodique, est édité | par The Olympia Press, 13, rue Jacob Paris 6e, et imprimé par | l’Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris. | Dépôt legal : 1er trimestre 1954. Printed in France. pp. [3-18], Helen and Desire by Francis Lengel. – pp. [21-36], The Virgin and the Monks [extract from Justine, ou Les Malheurs de la vertu]. By D. A. F. de Sade. – pp. [39-64], Good Company [extract from Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] by John Cleland.
Binding: Glossy coloured photographic wrappers, with, spread over front and back wrappes, a photo of a girl naked save for judiciously positioned orchids or similar, laying on what appears to be the seashore. At the top of the back wrappers, in blue, is printed: THE NEW PARIS TEASER | Fr. 150. Inside front and back wrappers, b&w pinup photos.
3.6.1 THE NEW STRIPTEASER 1954 Notes: Not seen. Known to exist from ban in 1954, and photo.
Now this one is really interesting, there is a black and white image too poor to reproduce here, and much speculation about whether any of this item are still in existence, including rumours that all copies have been destroyed, complete tosh, the French in the 1950’s were still to sensitive to the censorship and excesses of the occupying forces during the war, to engage in book burning, many Olympia titles suddenly appear in numbers, usually because a cache has been discovered either from materials confiscated and stored by the Brigade Mondaine or stock withheld by a printer, for non payment of invoices.
That aside there is no doubting that this is one of the rarer items of ephemera related to the press, so I was delighted to discover that a fellow collector has a copy, and had sent me an image in colour of the cover, unfortunately the image is in a format not supported (actually not permitted) by WordPress. So I am unable to share it.
I have also communicated with the owner to offer a pro forma description of another Teaser to allow him to produce the first know description of this title, but as yet I have no response but watch this space.
As for its existence elsewhere I have seen one copy in a Belgian collection some 20 years ago.
Well a significant amount of progress has been made but still some way to go, I am continuing to list both Olympia press and other erotica for trade and a decreasing number of wants, but enjoying it very much, despite my shy and rather silent readership. See below for the collection as it stands today, and with a few more items on the way, its getting better every day.
Back on to my favourite topic , which is the really rare titles. Something of a peripheral item, the books published or allegedly published, constitute an attempt by Maurice Girodias to avoid the attention of the French authorities, by shifting some of his editions to a Copenhagen printer. As Pat Kearney notes:-“Right up to the end, the French police were snapping at Girodias’s heels, and one of his last publishing efforts in Paris was to have six novels printed in Copenhagen, a desperate attempt to evade the authorities at home and launch a new series called The Odyssey Library. Despite the fact that censorship had been abolished in Denmark not to mention the fact the books were in English the Danish authorities were somehow persuaded by their French counterparts to halt the operation. Most of these novels were later reprinted in New York by the Olympia Press, but copies of the Danish originals, which are amongst the scarcest of the books that Girodias published, do emerge from time to time.” (Patrick Kearney, The Paris Olympia Press. Liverpool University Press 2007) Index Numbers are the actual location of the description in the bibliography.
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] [three typographic fig leafs] FLESH | RAFFLE by | jim dobbs [two typographic fig leafs] | 1 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] LESSONS IN | LOVE by Marjorie | Cartwright [two typographic fig leafs] | 2 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
12.3.1 WHORES, QUEERS, AND OTHERS (2 vols.) Philip Barrows [Daniel R. Tuite] Note: No copy known. Existence implied from catalogs and the missing series number 3. Published later by the New York Olympia Press, with a title page in the same Baroque style as the Danish series. It is possible this book was never published in the Odyssey Library series, but first (and only) released by the New York Olympia Press.
12.4.1 SCREAM, MY DARLING, SCREAM Angela Pearson [John Millington-Ward], 1963
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] [two typographic fig leafs] SCREAM, | MY DARLING, | SCREAM ! by | Angela Pearson | 4 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
Collation: 196 pp. No signatures, but [1-11]8, [12]10. The final signature has an additional double leaf, inserted. Printed on white wove paper. Contents: pp. [1,2] blank. p. [3], [two typographic fig leafs] SCREAM,| MY DARLING, | SCREAM ! by | angela pearson,
[Backwrapper; at foot, lettered in white within a solid black panel:] U.S. dollars 3,60 or equivalent in other currencies. [Printed in small black type at bottom right of backwrapper and at 90° to price panel:] Printed in Denmark | BEHRNDT OFFSET.
Scream Back Cover
Published later by the New York Olympia Press
12.5.1 MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: Tor Kung. [Jean Mclean and Jack Gilbert], 1963
My Mother Taught Me
[Within a black, highly ornamental frame comprising on each side statues on plinths and surmounted by mythological, tailed figures, the whole resting on a base decorated florally and at its centre a cameo:] MY MOTHER | TAUGHT ME | by Tor Kung [two typographic fig leafs] | 5 | THE ODYSSEY LIBRARY
12.6.1 SEXTET Note: No copy known. Existence implied from catalogues and the missing series number 6. Published in 1965 in the Traveller’s Companion Series, Number 94 (5.94)
Of all of the Olympia items I have traded over the years, the greatest regret I have is parting with the ephemera, such stuff is difficult to find and seldom listed by book-dealers, usually tucked away in a box somewhere, usually found when browsing , rather than presented for sale.
Pat Kearney, Paris Olympia Press, Liverpool University Press. 2007, lists a range of items at page 356.
Rather than reproduce that detail here (though I may do later), suffice to say I am interested in any ephemera, related to the press, including (but not exclusive) sales catalogues, advertising fliers, book lists, order forms, letters, business cards, and anything else with a printed or pictorial link to the press.
Any of the above or similar items, please leave a comment on this blog and I will get back to you.
