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Richard Seaver

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Richard Seaver was an editor, publisher, and translator who became legendary for championing unconventional writers in the face of censorship and cultural prudishness. He was the editor in chief of Grove Press in the 1960s, started his own imprint at Viking in 1971, and served as publisher of Holt, Rinehart & Winston until he founded Arcade Publishing in 1988, which he ran with his wife, Jeannette, until his death in 2009.

Richard Seaver Books

Cain's Book book cover

Cain's Book

Alexander Trocchi
Four Novels book cover

Four Novels

Marguerite Duras
Letters From Prison book cover

Letters From Prison

Marquis de Sade
The Tender Hour of Twilight book cover

The Tender Hour of Twilight

Richard Seaver
The Essence of Provence book cover

The Essence of Provence

Pierre Magnan
The Mystified Magistrate book cover

The Mystified Magistrate

Marquis de Sade
The Stoning of Soraya M. book cover

The Stoning of Soraya M.

Freidoune Sahebjam
Auschwitz book cover

Auschwitz

Miklos Nyiszli
The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings book cover

The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings

Marquis de Sade
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