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Paris: The Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press [October 1958]. With: Kenton, Maxwell [pseud]: LOLLIPOP. Paris: The Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press, [June 1962].. Two volumes. Uniform pale green wrappers, printed in black. Spine of first volume slightly sunned and a trace rolled, otherwise about fine. Second volume a bit sunned at spine with small sharp bump above the final 'P', lower forecorner slightly bumped, final two leaves have a faint tide-mark in the extreme lower forecorner, otherwise very good and bright. The first volume is the first edition, first printing, published as TC 64. After the French court condemned this title (along with sixteen other Olympia titles) in May of 1959, some sets of sheets were equipped with variant cancel prelims and distributed under the title LOLLIPOP. The original text was then reprinted in 1962, retaining the LOLLIPOP guise and continued designation as TC No. 64, as represented by the second volume present here, which has been signed by Terry Southern on the title-page. The price on the rear wrapper of the first edition retains the original price of 1200 Francs, but has a faint erased stroke through it. Among the most successful of the many satirical romps of its generation written for hire for Maurice Girodias, often by post-war American expatriates, and the source for one of the least successful film adaptations of the next decade. KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.64.1. & 5.64.3.