OBELISK: A HISTORY OF JACK KAHANE AND THE OBELISK PRESS. (SIGNED)

PEARSON, Neil.

ISBN 10: 1846311012 / ISBN 13: 9781846311017

Published by Liverpool University Press, Liverpool,, 2008

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN: 1846311012 Pages: 528 Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C75519

Bibliographic Details

Title: OBELISK: A HISTORY OF JACK KAHANE AND THE ...

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool,

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signedes

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin.

About the Author:

Neil Pearson is a television, stage and film actor. Film and tv credits include Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and the award winning comedy Drop the Dead Donkey. This is his first book.