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Published by Greenleaf Classics, San Diego, 1968
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
160pp. Originally published by the Olympia Press in 1956. GC274. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by The Olympia Press, 1961
Seller: Aeon Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first monthly review from the infamous publisher of erotica and avant-garde literature. Printed in December of 1961, it notably features scenes from William Burroughs' The Soft Machine, published earlier that year, and so offers glimpses of the novel in its original form that Burroughs so detested and would revise heavily for the 1966 second edition. With contributions from J.P. Donleavy, Henry Crannach, Lawrence Durrell, Ann Federman, Robert Doisneau, Maxwell Kenton, Richard McBride, Harriet Daimler, and Terry Southern. This copy from the collection of a tobacco smoker, with traces of tanning to spine and covers, and a very faint aroma of smoke within. Binding sound if a tad free to open at inside cover, pages crisp and unmarked. Moderate rubbing to covers, else fairly minimal shelfwear. Very good+. Seller is also offering examples of the second and fourth issues of this Journal.
Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
First Edition
Covina, California: Collectors Publication, (1967). [174]pp. + [1, illus. advert]. Paperback. Light rubbing and faint creases to binding; very good. Stated as "Complete and Unexpurgated" and "First American Printing." Iris Owens (1929-2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised her and Terry Southern wrote that "aside from her Junoesque beauty, [Owens] had rapier wit and devastating logic. She was a pre-Sontag Sontag." In the 1950s and '60s, Owens resided in Paris and was connected with the expatriate writers' circle known who created the literary journal Merlin. This group included prominent figures like Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton, and Richard Seaver.
Published by The Olympia Press, Paris, 1956
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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.
Seller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paris: The Olympia Press, [1956, per colophon]. 174pp. Softcover. "Traveller's Companion Series" No. 32. Binding with light rubbing and slight discoloration; small corner crease to front; very good. First edition. Inscribed: "Regards, Harriet Daimler aka Iris Owens." Iris Owens (1929-2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised her and Terry Southern wrote that "aside from her Junoesque beauty, [Owens] had rapier wit and devastating logic. She was a pre-Sontag Sontag." In the 1950s and '60s, Owens resided in Paris and was connected with the expatriate writers' circle known who created the literary journal Merlin. This group included prominent figures like Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton, and Richard Seaver. "Owens was very private about her 1960s. She left no memoir, and her friends offer no account." (Scott) Beginning in the early 1980s, she began to suffer from agoraphobia and "by the 1990s she barely left her flat at all. Owens died in 2008 in relative obscurity, without a New York Times obituary." (ibid) Owens's withdrawal from society may explain the rarity of finding her books signed, let alone inscribed. We locate no inscribed copies in the trade and just one auction record for a signed (only) copy of After Claude that brought £450 ($550) in 2022.