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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1939: Jack Kahane, owner of the Obelisk Press in...
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1939
Jack Kahane
, owner of the Obelisk Press
in Paris, died: he left his son Maurice
the press, which had been founded in 1931 to combat British prudery.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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1953: Maurice Girodias established Olympia Press...
