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Paris and the Expatriates

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[pseud.] DIKES, Mickey

Sarabande For A Bitch

Paris: Olympia Press, 1956

12mo, pp. 208. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black.

First edition. No. 28 in the Traveller's Companion series.

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[pseud. RUBINGTON, Norman] del PIOMBO, Akbar

Cosimo's Wife

Paris: Olympia Press, 1957

12mo, pp.175. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black. On rear panel, original price (Francs: 900) blacked out and new price... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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[pseud.] MARDAAN, Ataullah
Kama Houri
Paris: Olympia Press, 1956

12mo, pp.181. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black.

First edition. No.31 in the Traveller's Companion series.

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PEARSON, Neil
Obelisk: A History Of Jack Kahane And The Obelisk Press
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007

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APOLLINAIRE, Guilaume
Two Novels
Paris: Olympia, 1962

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JUSTICE, Jean
Murder vs. Murder : The British Legal System And The A.6 Murder Case.
Paris: Olympia, 1964

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[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila
To Beg I Am Ashamed
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938

8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.

Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.

It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.

A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.

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[Obelisk Press] ANDERSON, Robin
Four Schools

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1935

Small 8vo, pp. 118. Original red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black on front panel and spine.

First edition. A tirade against the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£375.00

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FRAENKEL, Michael

Death Is Not Enough

London: Carrefour, N.d. [1962]

8vo, pp. 171. Original oversized stiff paper wrappers.

Second edition, published by the author's widow, Daphne. First published by... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"white heart-rot of death" -- the death that must be accepted and not evaded if there is to be resurrecti

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PEARSON, Neil

Obelisk: A History Of Jack Kahane And The Obelisk Press

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2007

Large 8vo, pp. 494. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
A history of Jack Kahane's Paris-based Obelisk Press, which in the 1930s... [more]

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COATES, Robert. M.

The View From Here

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960

8vo, pp. 215. Original cream boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
Coates' Surrealist novel The Eater Of Darkness was first published in 1926 in Paris by... [more]

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£45.00

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[ed. JOLAS, Eugene]

Transition No. 22

The Hague: Servire Press: February 1933

8vo, pp. 179. Original outsize printed paper wrappers,inevitably worn at edges.

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With contributions from Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Eugene Jolas and Stuart ... [more]

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CENDRARS, Blaise

Confessions of Dan Yack

London: Peter Owen, 1990

8vo, pp. 120. Original tan boards, lettered in black on spine.

First English-language edition, originally published in French by Au Sans Pareil in 1929.
A fine copy.

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[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence

The Black Book

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.

First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]

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£50.00

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DURRELL, Lawrence

The Black Book

Paris: Obelisk, 1938

Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]

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£475.00

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[Olympia Press] O'CONNOR, Philip

Steiner's Tour

Paris: Olympia Press, 1960

8vo, pp. 170. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Pictorial dustwrapper.

First edition.
Extracts from the book appeared in the Olympia Press publication Evergreen Review,... [more]

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[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence

The Black Book

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MILLER, Henry

Plexus

Paris: Olympia Press 1953

2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]

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£200.00

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