Olympia Press: 494 books

In 1909 Benito Mussolini, then in his twenty-sixth year, was working in Trent (at that time part of Austria) as secretary to the Socialist Chamber of Labor, or trade union headquarters. He received a salary of 24 a month, which he supplemented by giving French lessons. His work as secretary included...

Few of us have not read or heard of the increasing number of “discipline groups” that flourish behind locked doors, stimulating sexual appetites and often triggering sexual climaxes through the medium of corporal punishment. Imagine, as has Chaucer Cartwright, an entire society which has...

ELLEN HUNTER Well married Educated Intelligent Sensitive Introspective And bored. Until Zanic came into her life. She didn't like his ugliness. She didn't like his raw strength. And she fought with every tense nerve of her senses the brutal peasant vitality she found so delicately seductive.

Urban post-postmodern poems from the avant-pop, avant-porn school of iconoclast literature! Louis Kahn Nin does not heed momma's advice and gets involved with members of the opposite sex who drink too much and live hard lives of broken promises and abject failure-lost children, lost dreams, lost hope,...

Serialized in the short-lived Olympia Magazine (four issues... we're working on it). On a self-imposed exile in a Sicilian village, a gal with three kids forces her own rebirth in this Mediterranean take on Lawrence's Plumed Serpent.

Earlier, more textually honest version of the author's account of gay/trans life in Berlin that was later reprinted in "Rustle of Black Silk Stockings," as originally published by his own press in Paris.

Somewhat tame collection by noted translator Goldberg. This book was first published by the Panurge Press, among other erotic classics. Panurge's founder went to jail in '26 for obscenity, but was a key figure in popularizing Frank Harris.

Shen Fu, writer and painter, who was a native of Soochow, was born in 1763 and died sometime alter 1809. His father was by profession a secretary to magistrates, and Shen Fu was apprenticed in the same profession. Shen held various posts as a secretary, but he also worked by turns as a teacher and...

The professor's field of interest was nubile girls. His wife liked them that way. The college president praised his young co-eds for their talents—after he had watched them dance in the buff. The biology field trip turned into a class in comparative anatomy— his and hers. With twin sisters, the frat...

The unofficial sequel to Power of Mesmerism, detailing in myriad form just how one really gets ahead in business. Chuck Adams is a big-time exec, but after just a wink from Wanda Tredgold of the SHAPES clothing giant, he suddenly finds himself losing control of his body, his wardrobe and his prior...

Collection of limericks by author Douglas, famed for his “South Wind” in an earlier era.

Simone de Beauvoir's essay was originally published in French as Faut-il brûler Sade? in Les Temps Modernes, December, 1951 and January, 1952. This work led to a renewed interest in the notorious author.

Dr. Suzuki is generally regarded as the outstanding spokesman for Zen Buddhism in the West. A master stylist in the English language, he writes of Zen with the directness and concreteness that characterize Zen itself. As he describes the training of the monk, he is as the same time bringing this rigid...

Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with...