Collectible Literature

Alexander Trocchi – Cain’s Book

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…
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Alexander Trocchi – Young Adam (1983 reprint)

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…
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Alexander Trocchi – White Thighs (1992 reprint)

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi ran the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. After Merlin had come to an end he got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. White Thighs is one of those pornographic novels. The book was published under the pseudonym Frances Lengel in 1955…
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Heathcote Williams – Shelley at Oxford

…In Shelley, Williams has found his ideal subject. The rogue aristocrat who became an outcast from English society because of his wild ideas about political and spiritual freedom; the teenager expelled from Oxford after just six months’ residence, who, by a cynical sleight of hand, has been rehabilitated as part of the ‘cultural legacy’ of the university; the opponent of church, state, and monarchy, the advocate of vegetarianism, free love, and political revolution; the poet who was presented to the Victorian age…
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Sinclair Beiles – Sacred Fix

sold out“By SACRED FIX I mean the fix on and with Madness – that sanctified condition when all has meaning and the madman is a poet living a poem. Apart from LEAR IN LOS ANGELES, I have enclosed ‘The Needle Vestal’, ‘The Rake’s New Progress’… all of which were written either in asylums or when I was under psychiatric supervision. Indeed these have been the conditions in which most of poetry has been written. In many ways the conditions of an asylum are ideal for a poet, for he is surrounded by other madmen subject to all kinds of poetic visions and hallucinations…

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