Olympia Press

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Textual Production Edith Templeton
Gordon first appeared in London in the New English Library, which had just contracted to take books from the once-banned Olympia Press of Maurice Girodias . It appeared in the same year in the...

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1953: Maurice Girodias established Olympia Press...

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1953

Maurice Girodias established Olympia Press and Ophelia Press .
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
307
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
113
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
305, 307

1959: Olympia Press published the Black Diaries...

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1959

Olympia Press published the Black Diaries of Roger Casement , Irish patriot executed by the British for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
114-15
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
297

Texts

Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, 1958.