Olympia Press: 494 books

Rarest of the rare. This book, first published in '57 as no. 45 in the Traveller's Companion series, is among the toughest works to find. (No. 44 was a little something called The Story of O, a title that initiated yet another French government crackdown on Olympia, perhaps explaining Rainbow's...

Another strong early effort by author Garr. First printed by Olympia in '68, it's the story of the author behind hardboiled Sam Sunday, and how our hero handles his wife--and his women--the way Sam would. As a special bonus, we learn in this book that "Mullingar" is a little town in County Westmeath, Ireland.

Sitting in the NY offices of Olympia one day, Maurice Girodias looked up from his copy of the Pleasure Bound trilogy, and said to his assistant--"boat, mais of course, but it cannot be this old boat; non! We must, yes, combine something, ah, the religion, yo-ho, the Southern religion, and the boat. And...

Sadly, a bit of a let down from the later years of Olympia. This exercise in false advertising pauses the action repeatedly to give out dialogue. There are trips on the road between sessions. At one point, the car is packed. Anyway, Star newspaper's top reporter gets the story down. But his editor should have deleted any sub-pyramid bits that didn't match the title.

A joint effort between Olympia authors Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens) and Henry Crannach (Marilyn Meeske), The Pleasure Thieves is an account of two men, burglars, who share a woman and each other, upping the ante at every turn. The book has its origins in a screenplay Meeske wrote with Terry Southern...

The second title by Coleman, Olympia's leading inspiration and top blurb-writer. The Itch, a tale that predates Indecent Proposal by decades, presents Viney, the husband, Martha, his wife, their many desires, and a millionaire who wanders along and offers them seven figures if they act out those...

First title by Robert Desmond, Olympia's second-most mysterious author after "Ataullah Mardaan." The Sweetest Fruit, published in 1951, is a contrast between two men, arrogant Ben and humble, clergyman David. The book details, in graphic detail, just how these two gentlemen go about things with...

A novel of high sexual adventure, introducing the broad-chested, herculean adventurer Travers Coogan and his incomparably voluptuous mistress, in their quest for the Diamond Dildo. The resulting tale will carry you on a wild chase through the world's most depraved and way-out sex spots: from the...

The Benefits Of Reading! Kanto's first novel for Olympia shows the author has done his homework. A couple finds not a little bit of satisfaction reading up on classics of sensuality--published by guess who?

Chronicling the lives of persons in and around Europe and the Netherlands for a period of 30-odd years, Without Violence by Olympia stalwart Desmond offers changes in attitudes concerning politics, class, money, women... and sexuality, with a healthy emphasis on that last. Interesting attempt at longitudinal...

Galloping horses in the Mexican night, a superb body reclining under the high tropical trees, blood and guitars, madness and beauty, the gnawing pain of love and death: a book one reads in a trance...--message from a used bookseller that we thought we'd pass on. One of Hoffenberg's (co-author...

With the arguable exception of Brad Pitt's casting as Achilles, this ebook is the most perverse thing to happen to Homer in millenia. Written by Michael Gall (who also did The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe), A Beside Odyssey presents a revised Ulysses (of "The Thousand Shots"), and his many romps...

In some ways a title that's horribly derivative of other Olympia works, involving determined actresses, Satanic black masses and even a Greek-mythology-evoking intro. However, The Gilded Lily is extremely well-written. This work gives a credible and quite vivid account of Lily, the girl with Spanish...

Solving a perplexing mystery, we're glad to say this is not one of Olympia's famous non-fiction works. In fact, How to Do It is Bull Sultan--the scourge of the South Pacific--took whatever he wanted from the island paradise, until he maimed the gentle Ming Li and wrecked Jim Crawford's...