DEL PIOMBO, Akbar The Fetish Crowd. A Trilogy: Paula the Piquôse, Duke Cosimo, The Double-BelliedCompanion.Companion Paris: The Olympia Press.1965.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp.[vi], 7-177, [iii], 3-131, [v], 5-143, [iii]; a bright copy, the backstrip rubbed and creased with a small split to foot of spine; a few small scuffs to lower cover; a couple of spots to the prelims and fore-edge, a little heavier spotting to the upper edge. Very good.
Second issue of the collected edition, no. 73 in the Traveller’s Companion Series, printed in June 1965 by Impr. Croutzet, Paris and sold for 30 Francs. The first issue was printed in 1959. This edition collects together Paula the Piquose (Who Pushed Paula), Duke Cosimo
(Cosimo's Wife) and The Double-Bellied Companion (The Traveller's Companion), originally published as Nos. 26, 34 and 43 in the series. Each title here has its own title page.
The books were originally thought to have been written by William Burroughs, and the publishers even note other works of Burroughs, printed to face the first title page. Later investigation, however, found the true author to be Norman Rubington, a painter, sculptor
and founding member of Galerie Huit, the first American cooperative gallery in Europe. Claims that the wrongful attribution to Burroughs were due to a printing error were rubbished by Rubington, who believed that the publisher had deliberately fostered the link with the better-known writer in order to improve sales.
Kearney (p. 89)
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