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Published by Grove Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0802139779ISBN 13: 9780802139771
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.38.
Published by Canongate Books Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 0862419050ISBN 13: 9780862419059
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Rebel Pr, 2002
ISBN 10: 0862416248ISBN 13: 9780862416249
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Riverrun Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 0714539252ISBN 13: 9780714539256
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Oneworld Classics, 2013
ISBN 10: 1847490425ISBN 13: 9781847490421
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Published by Calder Publications, 2018
ISBN 10: 0714544620ISBN 13: 9780714544625
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Métailié, 1997
ISBN 10: 2864242516ISBN 13: 9782864242512
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Book
Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Published by Grove Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 0802126170ISBN 13: 9780802126177
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.
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Published by Pan Books, 1963
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1963. First Pan Books Edition. 125 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Pulling to covers. Paper covers have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some curling to corners. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Some tearing and scuffing to edges.
Published by Olympia Press, 1966
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1966. The New English Library Edition. 160 pages. Green paperback. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.
Published by The Olympia Press, New English Library Limited, 1966
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition Thus. 160 pages. Paperback book with green cover. Pages remain bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Minor foxing and water stains present. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Pencil to front cover.
Published by Greenleaf Classics. San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, Inc., 1966
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. GC-204, very good +, faint reading crease, numer written on the cover, , paperback,
Published by Masquerade, New York, 1st edition, June 1991,, 1991
Seller: tsbbooks, London, United Kingdom
paperback, as new, scuffing on bottom edge, 152pp. Originally published in 1954, Trocchi's first novel. Erotic classic. " A critical and pivotal figure in the literary world of the 1950's and 60's. " William Burroughs.
Published by nel,uk, 1996
Seller: S.Carter, NEWPORT, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing thus-first nel edition.using the olympia press green cover design/vg copy-price put on with biro on front cover otherwise clean.
Published by The Olympia Press, No. 109, Traveller's Companion Press, New England Library Limited, 1966, 1966
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Close to fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. The renegade writer's novel, perhaps part memoir from a renegade press.
Published by The Olympia Press, No. 109, Traveller's Companion Press, New England Library Limited, 1966, 1966
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Softcover. Condition: Moyen. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Acceptable. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
Published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1966
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Pocketbook. Condition: Good. Pocketbook. wraps, 160 pp writing in black ink on the front cover Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by New English Library Ltd London, 1966
Seller: Grampian Books PBFA, Est. 1990, ELLON, ABDN, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
160pp. Soft covers. No inscriptions. VG.
Published by New English Library, London, 1966
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. The Olympia Press Travellers Companion Series No. 109. Previously published in Paris in 1954 by The Olympia Press and then by Heinemann in the UK in 1961. This was the first UK paperback edition. Light rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine which has some browning. Slight surface wear to the rear cover. Light browning to the page edges with some brown spottng in places and a little dark marking to the bottom edges. Slight corner creasing but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.
Published by New English Library / N.E.L. (in association with The Olympia Press), London, 1966
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. The Olympia Press / Traveller's Companion Series No. 109 - published in the UK by the New English Library - preceded by true first edition, published under the pseudonym "Frances Lengel" by the Olympia Press in Paris in 1954 as a paperback original (PBO). The New English Library edition follows the text of the first UK edition which was published in hardback by William Heinemann in 1961, and is a more 'literary' version that Trocchi was encouraged to release. ***Very good in the standard green thin card covers, with 'Four Square' and the printed price 8/6 at the top of the front cover. The covers are clean and unmarked, just slightly scuffed around the edges and with some small indentations on the back cover. No tears. The bottom corners of the covers are creased, but there are no reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. There is some creasing to the bottom corner of the page block, affecting the pages, where the book has been bumped. Pages clean. No foxing. No dustwrapper as issued. ***180mm x 108mm. 160 pages. ***'Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow in 1925. He attended Hillhead High School in the city and Cally House School in Gatehouse of Fleet, having been evacuated there during World War II. After working as a seaman on the Murmansk convoys, he studied English Literature and Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, graduating with second-class honours in 1950. Trocchi obtained a travelling grant that enabled him to relocate to continental Europe. In the early 1950s he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda, amongst others. Although not published in Merlin, American writer Terry Southern, who lived in Paris from 1948-1952, became a close friend of both Trocchi and his colleague Richard Seaver, and the three later co-edited the anthology "Writers In Revolt" (1962). Maurice Girodias published most of Trocchi's novels through Olympia Press, often written under pen names, such as Frances Lengel and Carmencita de las Lunas. Girodias also published "My Life and Loves: Fifth Volume", which purported to be the final volume of the autobiography of Irish-American writer Frank Harris. However, though based on autobiographical material by Harris, the book was heavily edited and rewritten by Trocchi. Girodias subsequently commissioned Trocchi to write erotica along with his friends and Merlin associates Logue, Plimpton and John Stevenson. Under the name Frances Lengel, he churned out numerous pornographic books including the now classic "Helen and Desire" (1954) and a dirty version of his own book "Young Adam" (1954). Trocchi and his friends also published Samuel Beckett's "War and Memory" and Jean Genet's "Thief's Journal" in English for the first time. Trocchi acquired his lifelong heroin addiction in Paris. He left Paris for the United States and spent time in Taos, New Mexico, before settling in New York City, where he worked on a stone scow on the Hudson River. This time is chronicled in the novel "Cain's Book", which at the time became something of a sensation, being an honest study of heroin addiction, with descriptions of sex and drug use that got it banned in Britain, where the book was the subject of an obscenity trial. In the United States, however, it received favorable reviews. In 1955, he became involved with the the Lettrist International and then the Situationist International.' (Wiki) ***First UK paperback edition of Alexander Trocchi's novel "Young Adam", published as No. 109 in the Olympia Press 'Traveller's Companion' series. Quite an uncommon book in this edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by The Olympia Press, London., 1966
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Second U.K. edition. Octavo. 160 pages. Wrappers.Spine faintly tanned. Covers slightly marked. Very good.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. Fine, unread copy of this novel by Trocchi. This edition is part of the Olympia Press Traveller's Companion Series No. 109. Book is clean and unmarked throughout and appears unread. Wraps are clean and fresh showing virtually no wear. A very nice collectible copy.
Published by Pan 1963, 1963
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
First Edition
Spine creased and rubbed else clean and bright copy in publishers decorated wrappers. First Paperback Edition.
Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Pan pb 1963 - wear to all edges, spine bowed, leaning and worn, small damage to head and foot, top edges slightly crumpled, pages very tanned, otherwise binding ok and clean text.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Printed green wrappers. Minor wear to covers. White square to half-title (caused by off-setting from post-it note). Near fine. The Olympia Press/ Traveller's Companion Series No. 109. Second UK edition. Young Adam was first published in France in 1954 by the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Frances Lengel. The first UK edition, under the author's real name, was published by Heinemann in 1961. Our copy is a reprint of the original Olympia Press edition.
Published by Olympia Press / The New English Library Limited,, 1966
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Wrappers. Second English Edition. Slight rubbing to corners but a very nice copy.
Published by Greenleaf Classics, 1966
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. 160pp. This novel by Scottish author Alexander Trocchi has a peculiar publishing history, which helps explain why this first American edition from 1966 is advertised as the "French banned sex classic" on the front cover. It was first published in France in 1954 by the Olympia Press under the Frances Lengel pen name. When it was published in England by Heinemann in 1961 it was under the author's own name. This first American edition is "by Frances Lengel" but also uses the author's own name inside. Basis for the 2003 film starring Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor. GC204. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.
Published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1954
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. | A very fresh copy with the faintest touch of edgewear else fine -- colour photogr. wraps . Excellent condition, no fading and virtually no wear. 64-pp. brochure/magazine (at least three seem to have been issued 1953-1954) excerpting four early Olympia publications, notably 5 pp. from Alexander Trocchi's YOUNG ADAM (written under 'Frances Lengel' pename); also Robert Desmond's ADULTS and GWEN; and Thomas Peachum's WATCHING THE GIRLS. Text liberally interspersed with b&w pin-up photos of naked ladies.
Published by Buchet/Chastel, 1964
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, some light spotting largely restricted to borders, pp. 155, crown 8vo, original yellow wrappers printed in black, tiny amount of rubbing at head of front, the original wraparound band laid in (see below), edges untrimmed and uncut, very good. The band proclaims the author 'Un Simenon anglais' - a model, also referred to by the blurb on the rear, that applies a little in respect of the present book, but not a general aspiration on the part of the Paris-based Scottish author.
Published by Greenleaf Classics, Inc., [No place], 1966
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 160 pages. This novel by Scottish author Alexander Trocchi has a peculiar publishing history, which helps explain why this first American edition from 1966 is advertised as the "French banned sex classic" on the front cover. It was first published in France in 1954 by the Olympia Press under the Frances Lengel pen name. When it was published in England by Heinemann in 1961 it was under the author's own name. This first American edition is "by Frances Lengel" but also uses the author's own name inside. A lovely, nearly fine copy of this book and scarce thus. Basis for the 2003 film starring Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor.