Busy Bodies (The Traveller's Companion Series, No. 92) by Ed Martin - 1963

New York: Olympia Press, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Olympia Book Society. Second Printing. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly rubbed and soiled, bumped at the corners. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Bee-Line Books, 1968. [vi], 246pp + [iv] [mild edgewear; browning]. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1965. Pocketbook. Paperback. Good. wraps, 246 pp, green border around title on title page, heavy creasing to spine.

New York: Olympia Press, 1970. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 246pp. Erotic humor. 'A notorious spoof on spooking - recounts the pleasures and measurements of those who have passed on to (apparently) better things.' Ed Martin is one of the mosr illustrious founding fathers of the Olympian School of Erotic Humor - together with Terry Southern, Chester Himes, Mason Hoffenberg, Ray Kainen, Robert Turner, Steve Canon and Akbar del Piombo. Busy Bodies, first published in Paris by The Olympia Press in 1963, has earned for Ed Martin a large underground fame, which has been steadily growling with the release of each one of his more recent works. Busy Bodies introduces us to a society of ghosts endowed with very earthly appetites, as well as a resolutely bohemian afterlife style. Open this book at any page amd you will see them come to, cropping up at the most unexpected moment in beds, bathtubs, morgues, bidets and social gatherings - not to mention assorted fleshly nooks and crannies. Truly a… Read More

GB: Olympia, 1971. 1st Edition. Paperback. VG-.

N Y: Bee-Line / Traveller's Companion / Olympia Press, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Worn cover with crease on spine and edge wear. Yellowing paper. 246 pages, plus advertisements.

NY:: Olympia Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. B001JL0MU2 . First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

The Olympia Book Society, 1968. First edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dustjacket.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1963. Pocketbook. Paperback. Good. green wraps 246 pp first edition green border around the title page.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1965. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 246 pp. Number 92 in The Traveller's Comapnion Series. 'A riotous spoof on spooking - recounts the pleasures and measurements of those who have passed on to (apparently) better things.' Kearney-Carroll 5.92.2. Reprinted in 1968 in conjunction with Bee-Line Books as TC2227, and in 1970 by The Olympia Press, New York, as No. 15 in the Ophelia Press Series.