Under The Hill [antikvár]

PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD The Olympia Press, founded in Paris in 1953 by Maurice Girodias, has played a vital role in the movement toward free expression in art and literature. Its major creation, The Traveller's Companion Series, has included first editions in English of Lolita and The Ginger Man, Jean Genet's Thief s Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, de Sade's novels, William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Samuel Beckett's Watt din Molloy, some of Henry Miller's major works and, among many other discoveries, the unique and frivolous Candy. Now that the great battle against hterary censorship has been nearly completely won in Great Britain and in the United States, The Traveller's Companion Series enters a new phase of its existence, and emerges at last from a long exile. From now on, it will be published simultaneously in London and New York, with the same famous green cover, under the editorship of Maurice Girodias. A Scandinavian multi-lingual Traveller's Companion is already in existence, and the Series will soon expand to other languages and other countries, making it a unique enterprise in the history of publishing, and multiplying the chances it can offer to unknown authors. An essential task of the new Traveller's Companion Series will, naturally, be as ever to discover new talents. Manuscripts are welcome, and should be sent to the editorial headquarters: The Olympia Press, 7 rue Saint-Severin, Paris 5, France. No responsibility can be accepted for manuscripts submitted and authors are advised to retain a carbon or photostat in each case. Above all, the ambition of the new Traveller's Companion Series is to become the image of the newly-won liberties: the right for everyone to think, to write and to read freely—for pleasure alone.