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The Teaser Pure and Simple / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Desmond R., 1953

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Identifier: CC-51382-72474

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Scope and Contents

This promotional book reprints excerpts of books from the press and is replete with b&w photographs of female nudes. Wikepedia states: "Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. 94 Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The "Ophelia Press" line of erotica was far larger, using the same design, but pink covers instead of green. Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. Other notable works included J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man; the French trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; A Tale of Satisfied Desire by Georges Bataille; Story of O by Pauline Reage; and a critical book on Scientology, Inside Scientology/Dianetics by Robert Kaufman. The South African poet Sinclair Beiles was an editor at the publisher." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1953

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (54 pages)) ; 19.9 x 13.2 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Paris, France : The Olympia Press. Nationality of creator: French. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: RED.

Genre / Form

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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