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Bee-Line, 1968. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First paperback ed. thus. Very good condition, bend to book.

New York: Grove Press, 1983. 172pp. First Black Cat edition. Paperback. Light crease lines to photo-illustrated front cover; very good. Originally published by Olympia Press in 1956. Owens's first book using a pseudonym. Iris Owens (1929-2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised her and Terry Southern wrote that "aside from her Junoesque beauty, [Owens] had rapier wit and devastating logic. She was a pre-Sontag Sontag." In the 1950s and '60s, Owens resided in Paris and was connected with the expatriate writers' circle known who created the literary journal Merlin. This group included prominent figures like Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton, and Richard Seaver.

New York: A Bee-Line Book / Orpheus Books, 1967. 160pp. Paperback, plain yellow and black-bordered covers, with general wear; good. Originally published by Olympia Press in 1956. Owens's first book using a pseudonym; this edition from "The Orpheus Series". Iris Owens (1929-2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised her and Terry Southern wrote that "aside from her Junoesque beauty, [Owens] had rapier wit and devastating logic. She was a pre-Sontag Sontag." In the 1950s and '60s, Owens resided in Paris and was connected with the expatriate writers' circle known who created the literary journal Merlin. This group included prominent figures like Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton, and Richard Seaver.

Freeway Press, 1973. Very Good. First Printings, reprints of Olympia Press editions (1950s). Vintage adult paperbacks, progressive, sexploitation paperbacks. Daimler's trilogy of women's erotica, w/ great interstellar photographic covers, even though the content is not overall space-y. Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing & toning. For mature, consenting audiences.

[No place: Vacation Press], [no date; ca. 1960s-1970s]. 173pp. Softcover. Near fine. An unusual edition and presumably a false, or at least an ambiguous, imprint. Originally published by Olympia Press in 1956. Owens's first book using a pseudonym.  Iris Owens (1929-2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised her and Terry Southern wrote that "aside from her Junoesque beauty, [Owens] had rapier wit and devastating logic. She was a pre-Sontag Sontag." In the 1950s and '60s, Owens resided in Paris and was connected with the expatriate writers' circle known who created the literary journal Merlin. This group included prominent figures like Alexander Trocchi, Christopher Logue, John Stevenson, George Plimpton, and Richard Seaver.

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: [Olympia Press], Traveller's Companion Series number 19, no date (ca. 1960's ?). Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 171 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed light card covers.
Trace edge wear, minor internal toning, otherwise very good or better.
An erotic adventure which began with rape. The protagonist searches the jazz clubs & beat bars of New York in search of her violator from whom she wants revenge & more sex.
Author Owens wrote five erotic novels for Olympia, this a pirated edition quite probably actually published in London.

The Olympia Press. Collectible - Good. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. 1st edition. 16mo. 173pp. Good book. No. 19 in "The Traveler's Companion" series. Rebound in red cloth without original green wraps. (erotic fiction) Inquire if you need further information.