PEACHUM, Thomas; [Philip OXMAN, Pseud.] The Watcher and the Watched. Paris: The Olympia Press.1959.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp. [iv], 5-285, [iii]; title page with border in green; a very good to near-fine copy, spine creased and scuffed, particularly at foot; very fresh internally.
No. 69 in the Traveller’s Companion Series, printed May 1959 by S. I. P. Montreuil, France and sold for 1.500 francs. First published by the Olympia Press in 1954 in the Atlantic Library series.
As the title suggests, a tale of voyeurism and desire: “he had rented a large studio in the center of town, and in the winter evenings when it grew dark early, he acquired the habit of posting himself at the edge of the curtains, of parting them with his hand to watch the windows across the street…”
Kearney (p. 87)
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