Dirty books : erotic fiction and the avant-garde in mid-century Paris and New York /

"Between the 1930s and the 50s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers such as Obelisk Press, Olympia Press and Grove Press were producing banned pornographic literature, written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. This book tells their stories, and the sto...

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