Buy this book on-line de ST JORRE, JOHN: : THE GOOD SHIP VENUS: The Erotic Voyage of the OLYMPIA PRESSLONDON.HUTCHINSON, 1994. ISBN 0091778743.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.Shelf-wear bottom edge dw/dj.B/w illus,332 pp,list of OLYMPIA PRESS titles,biblio,index.
The story of Maurice Girodias + Olympia Press is one of the most bizarre and flamboyant in publishing history.When 'dirty books' and great ones were banned in UK+US,Girodias launched out as an English language publisher in 1950's Paris. In post-war Paris he gathered starving but talented UK+US writers pumping out porn that funded the literary list.He combined distinguished novels: Lolita, The Ginger Man, Naked Lunch, Candy, The Story of 'O' and works by Samuel Beckett, with outright pornography. During this time he defied the censors to publish 5 of the landmark novels of the 20th C.But as censorship crumbled,his empire collapsed.
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