publisher launched in 1953 by maurice girodias as a rebranded version of the obelisk press he inherited from his father jack kahane . it published a mix of erotic fiction and avant garde literary fiction and is best known for the first print of vladimir nabokov s lolita . it specialized in books which could not be published without legal action in the english speaking world and correctly assumed that the french who were unable to read the books and were more sexually tolerant would leave them alone . they were books to buy if your travels took you through paris . 94 olympia press publications were promoted and packaged as traveller s companion books usually with simple text only covers and each book in the series was numbered . the ophelia press line of erotica was far larger using the same design but pink covers instead of green . olympia press was the first publisher willing to print william s. burroughs s avant garde sexually explicit naked lunch which soon became famous . other notable works included j. p. donleavy s the ginger man ; samuel beckett s french trilogy molloy malone dies and the unnamable ; henry miller s trilogy the rosy crucifixion consisting of sexus nexus and plexus ; a tale of satisfied desire by georges bataille ; story of o by pauline r age ; terry southern and mason hoffenberg s candy ; and a critical book on scientology inside scientology dianetics by robert kaufman . the south african poet sinclair beiles was an editor at the publisher . other authors included alexander trocchi iris owens harriet daimler and john stevenson marcus van heller . girodias had troubled dealings with his authors including copyright issues ; nabokov was not satisfied with the publisher and its reputation and another long running dispute over the rights to the ginger man ended with donleavy s then wife mary buying out girodias at what was intended to be a closed auction . having to leave france because he managed to annoy powerful people girodias briefly reestablished olympia press in new york in the 1960s and in london in the early 1970s . grove press in the u.s. would later print the olympia reader a best selling anthology containing material from some of olympia s most popular works including material by burroughs miller trocchi and others . another well known collection was the best of olympia first published by the olympia press in 1963 and reprinted by new english library in 1966 . other incarnations of the company some with girodias support emerged in germany italy and the united kingdom . olympia press has been re established and is currently operating out of washington london and frankfurt . works in the traveller s companion series edit the 120 days of sodom by marquis de sade a bedside odyssey by homer and associates the carnal days of helen seferis by alexander trocchi no . title 1 author 1 the enormous bed henry jones 2 rape marcus van heller john stevenson 3 school for sin frances lengel pseudonym for alexander trocchi 4 the libertine robert desmond 5 play this love with me willie baron 6 tender was my flesh winifred drake 7 the ginger man j. p. donleavy 10 what frank harris did not say alexander trocchi 11 the loins of amon marcus van heller john stevenson 12 the chariot of flesh malcolm nesbit 14 white thighs alexander trocchi 17 fanny hill john cleland 18 how to do it gustav landshot 19 darling harriet daimler 20 the small rooms of paris ezra de richarnaud 21 until she screams mason hoffenberg 22 the itch steven hammer 23 roman orgy marcus van heller john stevenson 24 heaven hell and the whore robert desmond 25 thongs alexander trocchi 26 who pushed paula akbar del piombo 28 sarabande for a bitch mickey dikes 29 helen and desire alexander trocchi 30 cruel lips marcus van heller john stevenson 31 kama houri ataullah mardaan 32 the pleasure thieves harriet daimler 33 innocence harriet daimler 35 the wantons marcus van heller john stevenson 36 our lady of the flowers jean genet 37 the house of borgia marcus van heller john stevenson 39 sexus henry miller 42 deva dasi ataullah mardaan 43 the double bellied companion akbar del piombo 44 the torture garden octave mirbeau 47 the world of sex henry miller 48 sodom or the quintessence of debauchery john wilmot 51 the white book jean cocteau 56 juliette marquis de sade 61 the woman thing harriet daimler 62 teleny oscar wilde 64 candy terry southern 65 classical hindu erotology ram krishnanada 66 lolita vladimir nabokov 68 plexus henry miller 70 two novels the amorous exploits of a young rakehell ; the debauched hospodar guillaume apollinaire 71 molloy ; malone dies ; the unnamable samuel beckett 73 the fetish crowd akbar del piombo 74 zazie dans le metro raymond queneau 75 gl deshuse sinclair beiles 76 naked lunch william s. burroughs 77 the black book lawrence durrell 78 the thief s journal jean genet 79 fuzz against junk the saga of the narcotics brigade and the hero maker akbar del piombo 80 the young and evil charles henri ford 85 the american express gregory corso 86 the shy photographer jock carroll 88 the soft machine william s. burroughs 91 the ticket that exploded william s. burroughs 92 busy bodies ed martin 93 murder vs. murder the british legal system and the a. 6 murder case jean . from old catalog justice 94 sextet j. hume parkinson 101 stradella james sherwood 102 i hear voices paul ableman 104 the gaudy image william talsman 105 the story of venus and tannhauser aubrey beardsley 107 the best of olympia an anthology of tales poems scientific documents and tricks which appeared in the short lived a maurice girodias 109 young adam alexander trocchi 112 night francis pollini 114 junky william s. burroughs 115 gordon edith templeton 205 the sexual life of robinson crusoe humphrey richardson 206 a bedside odyssey gerald williams 210 sin for breakfast mason hoffenberg 214 my mother taught me tor kung 301 the watcher and the watched thomas peachum 429 crazy wild breaks loose . jett sage 434 bishop s gambol roger agile 440 frankenstein 69 ed martin 450 acid temple ball mary sativa 456 a satyr s romance barry n. malzberg 465 sookey angelo d arcangelo 467 thrust c.s. vanek 470 jyros j. joth 505 run little leather boy larry townsend 2218 the organization harriet daimler 2220 whip angels selena warfield references edit publisher series traveller s companion series . library thing . retrieved 1 january 2015 . external links edit lust in the dust jackets the olympia press and the golden age of erotica this french corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title olympia press & oldid 736278959 categories book publishing companies of franceerotic publishersbdsm publishersmedia in parisfrench company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisitalianolatinaportugu s svenska edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 11 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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