The Olympia Reader by Girodias, Maurice - editor - 1965

Grove Press, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grove Press, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Quality Paperback Books Club, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. A large selection of erotica from the famed Olympia Press, which became known worldwide for its publishing of novels no other publisher would touch because of the sex. Included in this 725-page collection are excerpts from "Story of O," "Fanny Hill," "Our Lady of the Flowers,"Naked Lunch," and "Pinktoes," as well as selections from the classic works of Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Lawrence Durrell, Frank Harris and Marquis DeSade. Text edges show a trace of soiling and foxing, o/w text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. The pictorial wrappers show only light reading creases and mild surface wear, no tears, no chipping. A very nice copy at an economical price.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club. Fair with no dust jacket. Softcover. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Laminate peeling away on wrapper. Rubbing on edges. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

Black Watch. 1965. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; designed and illustrated by Norman Rubington; fading and shelf w ear to exterior; fading to pages, with spotting to page edges; in good cond ition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows fading, scuffing, an d edge tears, with price clipped inside front cover. .

Reprint edition. Grove Press, 1965. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is soiled and worn, with a water stain at the bottom of the spine, a one-inch closed tear and several smaller ones. A crease in the spine. Text is unmarked. Strong binding. NOT ex-library.

New York: Black Watch, 1965. Reprint . Cloth & Boards. Very Good/Good. 725pp. Photos & illustrations. Dj wear along edges but a clean sound copy.

Grove Press, 1965. Later Printing . Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Second printing. Pretty nice and tight some light staining to top edge.

Grove Press, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book club makes a perfect reading copy.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Norman Rubington. A 725-page anthology of erotic and ribald writing from the legendary Olympia Press, which became known worldwide in the 1950s and '60s for publishing novels no other publisher would touch due to their sexual content. Included in this wide-ranging collection are excerpts from "The Story of O," "Fanny Hill," "Lolita," "Naked Lunch," and "Candy," as well as selections from erotic works by Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett, Chester Himes, Frank Harris and the Marquis DeSade. First edition, first printing. Light green cloth boards show some wear at edges, corners and spines ends not uncommon for large, heavy books. Text edges show light soiling, o/w the text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. The primarily white dustjacket has performed well in protecting its book but shows considerable wear and soiling as a result. The front panel shows… Read More