Girodias, Maurice, — The Frog Prince: an autobiography.

NY, Crown, (1980). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Founder of Olympia Press, the Paris publishing house to which so many talented 20th century writers gravitated when their. works were considered too scandalous for everyone else. Olympia and its predecessor Obelisk Press, founded by Girodias's father, produced small English-language editions of erotic books that tourists could smuggle back to their own countries. Some books were pure pornography but others reflected a new wave of serious writing concerned with the explicit exploration of man's sexual nature.