Helen and Desire by Frances Lengel (Alexander Trocchi). The Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion series. (reprinted July, 1956). 4 1/2" x 7" 199 pages plus 4 pages ads  Mass market sized paperback. Wear to cover edges, particularly on the sides of the spine. Heavy on the bottom of the spine. Cover tips have corner folds. A little bit of the corner of the back cover has been worn or eaten away. There is foxing or soiling on the edges of the page block. Also there is wear on the tips of the page block. Inside the book, the pages are clean. I found one page corner fold, however, in the back of the book, the last page has suffered some sort of abrasion on the lower corner, which may have been reflected in the back cover too. This extends a little bit into the pages before the last page. The book opens easily, so it has been read but the pages are secure within the book.  Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sLH28a

"Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi (/ˈtrɒki/ TROK-ee; 30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a Scottish novelist."
"Interest in Trocchi and his role in the avant-garde movements of the mid-20th century began to rise soon after his death. Edinburgh Review published a "Trocchi Number" in 1985 and their parent house, Polygon, published the biography, The Making of the Monster in 1991 by Andrew Murray Scott simultaneously with an anthology, Invisible Insurrection, also compiled by Scott who had known Trocchi for four years in London. These works were influential in bringing Trocchi back to public attention and were widely reviewed. Scott assisted the Estate in attempting to regain control of Trocchi's material and to license new editions in the UK and US and Far East, also collating and annotating all remaining manuscripts and documents in the Estate's possession.

During the 1990s, various American and Scottish publishers (most notably Rebel Inc.) reissued his originally pseudonymous Olympia Press novels and a retrospective of his articles for Merlin and others, A Life in Pieces (1997), was issued in response to revived interest in his life and work by a younger generation. His early novel Young Adam was adapted into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton in 2003 after several years of wrangling over finance." - Wikipedia

"Following the financial collapse of his literary magazine Merlin, which he founded in 1952 and which struggled with insufficient subscribers and distribution challenges in post-war Paris, Alexander Trocchi turned to writing erotic novels for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press to secure immediate income.[16][26] This pragmatic shift addressed the economic pressures of sustaining a bohemian existence amid rising living costs and unreliable patronage in 1950s Paris, where expatriate writers often faced precarious finances.[27]
Trocchi contributed multiple titles under pseudonyms, including Helen and Desire (1954, as Frances Lengel), which he completed in one week during December 1953, and The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis (also 1954, as Frances Lengel).[28][3] Additional works encompassed White Thighs (1955, as Frances Lengel) and Thongs (1955), produced rapidly to meet Olympia Press's demand for salacious content aimed at English-speaking tourists and military personnel evading censorship in Britain and the United States.[3] These pseudonymous efforts yielded stipends from Girodias, who commissioned "dirty books" as a core business model, providing Trocchi with short-term financial relief absent from Merlin's idealistic but unprofitable pursuits.[27]" - https://grokipedia.com/page/Alexander_Trocchi