FIRSTS ONLINE Winter 2020

4. CARROLL, Jock
Bottoms Up
Paris: Olympia Press, 1961
Small 8vo, pp. 210. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to
front and rear panels and spine. New price printed faintly to rear panel.
Ownership signature to ffep. (see below), binding a little loose, and with wear
to spine ends.
First edition. CANADIAN PUBLISHER STUART KEATE’S COPY,
WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO FRONT FREE
ENDPAPER. WITH A REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY ‘TITUS CANBY’
LAID IN, PUBLISHED IN THE MAY 1962 ISSUE OF INFINITY.
Jock Carroll [1919-1995] was a Canadian photo-journalist and war
correspondent. This was his only work of fiction, and was inspired by
a real -life photographic assignment he had with Marilyn Monroe on
the set of Niagara (1953). His friend Stuart Keate [1913-1987] was a
Canadian newspaper publisher and President of The Canadian Press.
Laid in to the book is an offprint from the May 1962 issue of Infinity,
house journal of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. The
offprint is a review of the book by one ‘Titus Canby’ -- almost certainly
a pseudonym used by Carroll to push his own book. ‘Titus Canby’ was
a character in an American comic strip called Bringing Up Father which
was widely syndicated across continental America at the time. Also, the
review is an absolute rave.
£250
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