1956
by [Olympia Press]. Daimler, Harriet and Henry Crannach [pseuds. Iris Owens and Marilyn Meeske]
1956. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956.
8vo, 173, (3) pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge and just a hint of shelfwear to the foot of the spine.
§ Number 32 in the Olympia Press Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 900" on lower cover. A pornographic story of two male house burglars who share a women, co-authored by two American women novelists living in Paris.
Marilyn Meeske wrote one other book for the Olympia Press (Flesh and Bone, 1957) and also served briefly as an associate editor before the press was shuttered due to censorship legal troubles in 1965.
Iris Owens wrote four other erotic novels in three years for the Olympia Press, all under the pseudonym of Harriet Daimler. (“Daimler struggles against her impossible tendency to write more explicitly than the courts will tolerate,” the editor Girodias wrote approvingly in the Olympia catalogue of 1957.) Owens later gave her pseudonym to the protagonist of the first of two books published under her own name. A dark and intriguing figure - no feminist but a survivor - her work has been reappraised since the reissue in 2010 of her novel "After Claude". Her papers are now at Columbia University. (Inventory #: 126223)
8vo, 173, (3) pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge and just a hint of shelfwear to the foot of the spine.
§ Number 32 in the Olympia Press Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 900" on lower cover. A pornographic story of two male house burglars who share a women, co-authored by two American women novelists living in Paris.
Marilyn Meeske wrote one other book for the Olympia Press (Flesh and Bone, 1957) and also served briefly as an associate editor before the press was shuttered due to censorship legal troubles in 1965.
Iris Owens wrote four other erotic novels in three years for the Olympia Press, all under the pseudonym of Harriet Daimler. (“Daimler struggles against her impossible tendency to write more explicitly than the courts will tolerate,” the editor Girodias wrote approvingly in the Olympia catalogue of 1957.) Owens later gave her pseudonym to the protagonist of the first of two books published under her own name. A dark and intriguing figure - no feminist but a survivor - her work has been reappraised since the reissue in 2010 of her novel "After Claude". Her papers are now at Columbia University. (Inventory #: 126223)
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