"The Best of Olympia" (1966)

Paris, France: The Olympia Press (book, anthology), 1966.
7.5" x 5.5" x 0.75", 240 pages, softcover.

The Best of Olympia: An Anthology of Tales, Poems, Scientific Documents and Tricks Which Appeared in the Short-Lived and Much Lamented Olympia Magazine, as compiled and edited by Maurice Girodias and published by his Olympia Press (Paris), with the New American Library (London), in 1966.

William S. Burroughs contributes excerpts from The Ticket That Exploded on pages 140–145, as published in Olympia, issue 4, April 1964.

Maynard & Miles B25.
Shoaf II.31.

Contents:

• Maurice Girodias: Preface
• Professor Henry Crannach: "Chastity Belts: A Mystification?"
• Lawrence Durrell: "Pursewarden's Incorrigibilia"
• Brion Gysin: "Dream Machine"
• Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville: Dreamachine plans
• Ian Sommerville: "Flicker"
• unstated: "Frankie and Johnny — New Style"
• Ann Federman: "The Trial of the Templars"
• Eric Kahane: "The Eagle as a Lover: Some Further Conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte"
• Robert Giraud collection: "The Skin Artists" (photographs)
• Mark Twain: "1601"
• Jascha Kessler: "An Egyptian Bondage"
• Nazli Nour: "The Trial of Gretchen Green"
• William S. Burroughs: "The Ticket That Exploded [excerpts]"
• Gregory Corso: "3 Poems"
• Walter Lowenfels: "Whitman's Many Loves"
• Terry Southern: "The Spy's Corner"
• Claire Rabe: "Sicily Enough"
• unstated: "French Postcards"
• Stephen Schneck: "In the Dirty Pictures"
• Kaja: "I Worship Paperclips"
• Jonathan Kozol: "The Contest"