Olympia Press: 494 books

It is with immense pride that we, The Publishers, introduce The Girlfriend's Boyfriend, by Nona Carlson. It has been a long time since one woman's climb to position and the exorbitant price she paid for success have been portrayed so honestly, so fearlessly, and with such deep penetrating...

The appearance of Reluctant Wives by Mande Woljar, the famed literary figure of the Eastern European equivalent of the "Now Generation," is another milestone in the history of American publishing, rivaled in this century by only the phenomenon of Vladimir Nabokov, Russia-born author who also made...

Statistics are usually thought of as the dullest of all possible subjects, but statistics that represent people are anything but dull. They can represent change, growth, progress—and they can also represent human misery of the worst kind. Let's take a few examples. Statistic one: in the...

Interesting tale about a wealthy young heiress who, no Paris Hilton, marries when still a virgin. Her husband sets off to parlay her fortune into an enormous sum, but has an affair and realizes that he'd been missing out on quite a bit in life. Divorce on the way, he leaves, and she discovers her...

The adventures of a young man with a generous endowment.

About:As the curtain is raised on this drama, the foibles of the characters come into focus—the small town hard-working accountant who is trying to save his money in order to start his own business, the little rich girl whose only talent is identifiable by a dollar sign, the political performer...

The tragic life of Beardsley (illustrator of "The Yellow Book," and Oscar Wilde's Salome) was, in addition to his untimely death at age 25, further marred by censorship. The famed illustrator had compiled his erotic text "Story of Venus and Tannhauser" into a couple of underground editions, but...

He knew that Jenny wasn't dead. But he also knew that if she regained consciousness, he'd be in a lot of trouble. His only thought was that of escape. But he knew it would be better to wait until morning to see just how bad things were. If she died out there and never regained consciousness,...

Henry Tinker's hospital stay not only delayed his wedding to the admiral's daughter, it introduced him to Ellen, the passionate X-ray technician; to Dawn, the super-stacked day nurse; to Sabrina, his nurse of the night; and Ursula, Denmark's gift to willing patients. Somehow Henry had...

Determined to Succeed She was greedy for money and men and power. She didn't care what the film makers asked of her, or how far down the road to total degradation she had to go. She was going to be big, very big--and then the creeps who stepped on her when she was small would have to pay. Oh, they'd pay a terrible price.

This exciting, provocative book moves the reader swiftly across half the world in a whirlpool of iniquity. Presented here for the first time in English, Diary of a Bastard links the freedom and permissiveness of contemporary society, with the archetypal and symbolic onus which underlie the actions and...

Akbar del Piombo's (Norman Rubington's) famed tale of Duke Cosimo, his wife, and their many, many guests. Very much wysiwyg account of some wild partying, but Rubington deserves extra credit for the manic quality he brought to all his works.

Never knew the Swiss could party like that. A luxury bus tour, under the command of the hard-driving Istvan, takes its merry crew through Europe. Title was originally published in 1961 as part of the Ophir Books series, or maybe it's a reprint of "Unfaithful," by same author, from the year before. Let you know when we find out...

In her own words, the true account of the dancer, courtesan and spy whose legend has enflamed and fascinated men and women for nearly a century. Born in the Netherlands, Mata gives us her own erotic awakening, her many loves, the dangers that she faced, her imposture as a Javenese princess, the adventures she thrived upon... until her execution as a spy in 1917. Unexpurgated.