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Paris and the Expatriates
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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 PressLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007
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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 Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.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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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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[ed. JOLAS, Eugene]
Transition No. 22
The Hague: Servire Press: February 1933
8vo, pp. 179. Original outsize printed paper wrappers,inevitably worn at edges.
First edition.
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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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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[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
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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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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[Obelisk Press] PRESTON, William
Journal In Mexico
Paris: N.p. [Obelisk Press], N.d. [?1931]
Large 8vo., pp. 40. 2 pp. note on the career of William Preston bound in to preliminaries (present in all copies examined). Rebound in leather, original pale blue paper wrappers bound... [more]
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COCTEAU, Jean
Le Mystère Laïc
Paris: Editions des Quatres Chemins 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 81. Original stiff paper wrappers and glassine jacket.
First edition. Copy no. 650 of a not especially limited edition of 3000 copies, but a superior example.
