The Woman Thing by DAIMLER, Harriet - 1984

Olympia Press , 1958. Book. Very Good. Paperback. The Traveller's Companion Series 61.

Brandoon House. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. VG. Travellers Companion Bee Line Book. Binding solid, pages tanned but clean, no markings found. Covers toned but bright and shiny with small crease, light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.

brandon, . near fine, paperback,

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1967. 1st printing. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 176pp. 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. GC242.

Brandon House, 1967. 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, consenting audiences.

North Hollywood, Calif. 1967 first edition. Brandon. Introduction by Jack Hirschman. 175p. Small octavo hardcover. VG (light uneven toning on end papers) in VG dj. (dj has no tears and no chips, price is not clipped; slight stain on rear panel and very light overall toning. .

[New York: The Traveller's Companion, Inc. in association with Bee-Line Books, Inc.], (1968). 182pp. Softcover. "Traveller's Companion Series" No. TC-2217. Light rubbing along spine joint and edges of covers; very good. Inscribed: "Harriet Daimler-her final work, aka Iris Owens." Reprint edition, authorized by the original publisher, Olympia Press in Paris. With 1-page commentary on American censorship of free expression by Maurice Girodias, publisher/editor. 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… Read More