Olympia: A Monthly Review from Paris, No. 1
Paris, France: The Olympia Press, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. Maurice Girodias rebranded his father’s Obelisk Press as the Olympia Press in 1953 as a publisher of avant-garde and provocative literature that otherwise was not welcomed by the English-speaking world. The French didn’t take long to turn on the press’ explicit publications by banning and seizing them just a few years later. Olympia was the first publisher to be willing to..... More
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