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J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, The Olympia Press

Sold for $30 at Turner Auctions + Appraisals on Jun 24, 2023.

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Turner Auctions and Appraisals ushers in the next generation with andDaughters Auctions, founded by daughters Cassandra and Elysia Turner, along with Jason Krell. &Daughter Notes. J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man Travellers Companion Series in English. Second Olympia Press edition of the author's debut novel. Olympia Press books were best known for their erotic and avant-garde literary fiction. Evolving from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press, Olympia Press, a publishing house created in 1953 in Paris, was founded by Kahane's son, Maurice Girodias. Printed in English, books published by Olympia Press were censored in the UK and America. Because of their explicit content, the French eventually began to ban and seize the books published by Olympia Press in the 1950s. Often the books were destroyed. Olympia Press is best known for publishing, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, and The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy. Now is your chance to own a piece of controversial publishing history.  

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