The Liverpool Library Press, launched in 1967, was notable for following the Olympia style of plain, dark green covers, though it did allow for illustrations to be included in the form of line drawings that might often appear to be fairly innocent at first glance.
In the Sixties, the line between serious literature and porn was blurred by Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press, which published both side by side in the Travellers Companion series – so named because, although published in Paris, the books were in English and aimed squarely at tourists and other international travellers from countries where books like Henry Miller’s novels or The Naked Lunch were still outlawed. By the mid-1970s, even the British courts were forced to concede that there was little hope of ever getting a conviction against the written word (though the Manchester police would continue to raid Savoy Books for decades to come, and there have been infrequent attempts to set new legal precedents for what can and cannot be written). The story of America’s most outrageous and salacious paperback publisher.Įrotic fiction found itself liberated by a series of obscenity trials in the 1960s, which slowly chipped away at the restrictions around the written word, with the high profile trials of serious literature – Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Last Exit to Brooklyn – paving the way for less literary works.
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