THE AMERICAN EXPRESS, GREGORY CORSO
1st edition of The American Express, Corso’s only novel, number 85 of the Traveller’s Companion Series of the Olympia Press, Paris, 1961. Original soft cover with dust-jacket/ photo wrap featuring Corso himself in front of the American Express bureau in Paris. Cover and contents NEAR FINE with only light wear to the dust-jacket.
The Olympia Press published english language titles in Paris which would have been otherwise impossible to print in UK or USA due to the controversial nature of the texts. The Traveller’s companions series is names such as these small volumes were designed to be easily gotten during one’s travels through Paris. They are now highly collectable.
American Beat Generation poet, Gregory Corso has written just this one novel.
1st edition of The American Express, Corso’s only novel, number 85 of the Traveller’s Companion Series of the Olympia Press, Paris, 1961. Original soft cover with dust-jacket/ photo wrap featuring Corso himself in front of the American Express bureau in Paris. Cover and contents NEAR FINE with only light wear to the dust-jacket.
The Olympia Press published english language titles in Paris which would have been otherwise impossible to print in UK or USA due to the controversial nature of the texts. The Traveller’s companions series is names such as these small volumes were designed to be easily gotten during one’s travels through Paris. They are now highly collectable.
American Beat Generation poet, Gregory Corso has written just this one novel.
