The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series
by Maurice Girodias
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 1299977642
- ISBN 13
- 9781299977648
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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*The Olympia Reader: Selections From the Traveller's Companion Series by Maurice Girodias.. first printing copy attractive green boards, slight rubbing on some of its edges, printed - nice quality Beige stock, hand & ink drawings throughout, titling on spine, in Black lettering, does have dust jacket dust jacket has a certain amount of minutiae on it and there are several tears, book is in good condition dust jacket is acceptable to good, could use a plasticine covering- excellent tight copy straight, back corner is slightly bumped... huge heavy books are sometimes easily dropped.... tight nice copy, and expensive to mail......Olympia Press published erotic novels by some of this century's greatest writers - Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, J.P. Donleavy. Provocative overview of Olympia's impressive offerings, excerpts from Burroughs's Naked Lunch & cult favorite Candy by Terry Southern, erotic classics like Story of O, Fanny Hill, the Marquis de Sade's Justine & others. .... The Olympia Reader: Selections From the Traveller's Companion Series by Maurice Girodias...Publisher Grove Press , NY,# GP-340 , first printing hardcover 01/1965, lccn 65 - 14205, Later used -ISBN-1299977642, 9781299977648, .725 pages , thick large book , designed Illustrated Norman Rubington - Maurice's photo in back by Eric Yanzi, - choreographer . ..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles - maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.......Olympia reader 5754 HC SEX LB 2 4 pounds
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5754
- Title
- The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series
- Author
- Maurice Girodias
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1299977642
- ISBN 13
- 9781299977648
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- about 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 2 in.
- Keywords
- The Olympia Reader: Selections From the Traveller's Companion Series by Maurice Girodias...Publisher Grove Press , NY,# GP-340 , first printing hardcover 01/1965, lccn 65 - 14205, Later used -ISBN-1299977642, 9781299977648, .725 pages , thick large book ,
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