Daimler Harriet Iris Owens (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Brandon House Book 2041, 1st paperback printing (thus), no month, 1967. Cover artist not noted. 175 pages. Introduction by Jack Hirschman, Ph. D. Supposedly written in Paris in the 1950s. "Bit by bit, she felt herself turning into--the woman thing!" Unread with pure white, non-pulp pages. Minimal storage rubbing to wraps. F condition.

181pp. No. 61 of The Traveller's Companion Series. Kearney-Carroll 5.61.2. originally published as THE WOMAN THING, this was reprinted as WOMAN to throw off the gendarmes after being suppressed by decree in 1959. One of author Daimler"s more unusual works, involving debates about philosophy, madness, religion, and the screaming tender demon inside. Martha and Macdonald sit in Paris, debate and chat, and need, and desire, and reject. And have lots of sex. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

2nd Printing. 185pp. No 40 of The Traveller's Companion Series. Kearney-Carroll 5.40.2. First published by the Olympia Press in 1957 as THE ORGANIZATION. A modernist re-telling of Sade's The Bedroom Philosophers. The change of title was done to fool the Paris vice squad who had an alphabetized 'hit list' of proscribed books. Green border on title page. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 181pp. No. 61 of The Traveller's Companion Series. First published by Olympia as The Woman Thing in 1958. Kearney 5.61.2. A touch of very light wear, else a Near Fine copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Age toning to the back cover. Creasing to a few page corners. First Black Cat edition. ; 182 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. A nick to the heel of the spine, and tanning to the pages. First Black Cat edition. ; 151 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Unknown (illustrator). Greenleaf Classic GC274. Vintage erotic paperback. Gay, Bisexual jewel thief, ex-con themes. Cover copy: Harry and Phillip were a perfect pair-shrewd, cool, as only master jewel thieves can be. They met and shared their bodies in prison, and once out, they shared their plans, their tech-niques, their loot. and the body of the lovely blonde Carol. She was every bit as cool as they. until the ice melted in the heat of an all-consuming lust. Beneath the cool exteriors and above their heated loins, each nurtured a dream: Phillip's was to retire to the gracious life of a country gentleman; Harry's was to experience the thrill of the biggest take of them all; Carol's was to find the lover who would care enough to forgive the most shameful secret a woman could ever have . Size: 4" x 7". 160 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Some age-toning to page and cover edges. Some reading-wear, cover creasing and bumping to corners. Greenleaf Illustrator: Unknown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 12 oz. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Gay (Male); Inventory No: 033222.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Green printed wrappers, 16mo., 185, (1) pages. Traveller's Companion No. 40. Second edition. Price blotted out, moderate wear and soiling, corner at outer foot bumped, a very good copy.

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Printing of this edition, a reprint of Olympia Press edition, softcover 12mo, 357pp [368], photo cover. Vintage adult paperback, progressive, sexploitation, explicit fiction. Two from Daimler's trilogy of women's erotica. Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing, toning. For mature audiences. Scarce.

159pp. Pornographic novel. AC 252. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

12 x 18 cm. 157 S. Rotes Orig.Leinen mit RTitel. Ohne Umschlag. Etwas berieben und angestaubt. Kearney, German Olympia Press,

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Unknown (illustrator). Greenleaf Classic GC242. Vintage erotic paperback. Some toning to edges and spine. Unread or gentle reading-wear. Size: 4.25" x 7". 176 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Some age-toning to page and cover edges. Slight reading-wear and bumping to corners. Illustrator: Unknown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 12 oz. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Sleaze 1960s; Inventory No: 033190.

Paperback. GC-232 almost near fine, price written on the cover, unread, new looking paperback,

160pp. An erotic novel. Reprint of a work originally published by the Olympia Press at Paris in 1957 as No. 33 in the Traveller's Companion Series. GC257. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Green printed wrappers, 16mo., 181, (1) pages. Traveller's Companion No. 61. Price 18 Francs. Second printing. A clean, unread, very near fine copy with just a trace of edgewear, in archival mylar.

Condition: Very Good Plus. Brandon House Library Edition 2041, $1.75 cover price, 175pp, illustrated wraps. Reprints the original Olympia Press edition ("Woman"), and includes an author postscript. Vintage adult paperback, progressive, sexploitation fiction. The first in Daimler's trilogy of women's erotica, about the "thing" in a woman that is powerful! Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing & toning, a few brief scuffs. For mature audiences.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. "A Brandon House Library Edition 2037" "1st American Edition complete and unabridged" Pocket/mass market paper back. Sightly corner bumped. Nominal edge/shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages NOT toned- very rare occurrence given age of book. Black wraps with red/green text and woman in 60's skin/body suit. Introduction by Jack Hirschman, PHD. With Postscript by author. Hard to find/rare/out of print with this cover/wrap. Shelved in plastic. Additional postage required for insurance amount according to USPS weight and destination.

Condition: Very Good. First printings, softcover 12mo, 160pp ea, 1 illustrated cover. Vintage adult paperbacks, progressive, sexploitation, explicit fiction. Two from Daimler, a prolific writer of women's erotica. Darling, Greenleaf Classic GC-236, 1967. The Lover, Acroterium Classic AC-252, Zil, Inc., 1968.Very Good overall, light rubbing, toning, a few short creases. For mature audiences. Scarce.

174pp. + 1pp. ads. No. 32 in The Traveller's Companion Series. Kearney 5.32.1. // "A joint effort between Olympia authors Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens) and Henry Crannach (Marilyn Meeske), The Pleasure Thieves is an account of two men, burglars, who share a woman and each other, upping the ante at every turn." Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957. 8vo, 172 pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge. ? Number 33 in the Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 1.200" above "Francs 900" blacked out on lower cover. Iris Owens wrote five erotic novels in three years for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press under the pseudonym of Harriet Daimler. (?Daimler struggles against her impossible tendency to write more explicitly than the courts will tolerate,? Girodias wrote approvingly in the Olympia catalogue of 1957.) Owens later gave her pseudonym to the protagonist of the first of two books published under her own name. A dark and intriguing figure - no feminist but a survivor - her work has been reappraised since the reissue in 2010 of her novel After Claude. Her papers are now at Columbia University.

Paperbacls. Condition: Good. First Edition. First editions (1956.) Two 16mo paperbacks with 99 pages in Part 1 and 68 pages in Part 2. Harriet Daimler is a pseudonym of Iris Owens (1929-2008.) During the 1950s and '60s she lived in Paris, where she was associated with the group of expatriate writers who produced the literary review Merlin, among them Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton and Richard Seaver. Like Trocchi and Logue, she earned money writing erotic novels for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. This was her first novel. The books are in good condition with slight creasing to the front covers on each volumes. Beige spines/no text. Size: 16mo. Literature Erotic Literature.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. 8vo, 173, (3) pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge and just a hint of shelfwear to the foot of the spine. ? Number 32 in the Olympia Press Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 900" on lower cover. A pornographic story of two male house burglars who share a women, co-authored by two American women novelists living in Paris. Marilyn Meeske wrote one other book for the Olympia Press (Flesh and Bone, 1957) and also served briefly as an associate editor before the press was shuttered due to censorship legal troubles in 1965. Iris Owens wrote four other erotic novels in three years for the Olympia Press, all under the pseudonym of Harriet Daimler. (?Daimler struggles against her impossible tendency to write more explicitly than the courts will tolerate,? the editor Girodias wrote approvingly in the Olympia catalogue of 1957.) Owens later gave her pseudonym to the protagonist of the first of two books published under her own name. A dark and intriguing figure - no feminist but a survivor - her work has been reappraised since the reissue in 2010 of her novel After Claude. Her papers are now at Columbia University.