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19501403393Paris: Les Pas Perdus 1950. Limited First Edition: #1060/1250. Softcover. Booklet 71 4 pages. In Fair condition. Gray paper covers sunned brown along edges and spine. Soiling along edges of covers. Rubbing along cover edges. Light chipping along top edge of front cover. Splitting at the front joint and in the gutter of pages 16-17; as a result both the first signature and the front cover are detached. The first signature remains attached to the front cover. Light shelf wear and scuffing visible on text block edges. Top edges uncut. Housed in a new card-backed archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403393. Special Collections. Les Pas Perdus unknown
Second Story Books, ABAA · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €
