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196842978Paris: Éditions d'histoire sociale 1968. Facsimile reprint. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy with faint crease to front wrapper. 226 pp. 24mo. Number 149 of 1000 copies. Originally published in 1871 by Imprimerie Ve Blanchard. On cover: Paris libre du 18 mars au 4 avril 1871. Limited reprint of this scarce publication from the Paris Commune. [Éditions d'histoire sociale] unknown
201527030<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2015. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a slight curl to the bottom edge of the front panel. Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of the dark and shadowy Pairs which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city in the culture of France itself and by extension throughout the world. Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses Sante whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted pre-Haussmann streets through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city.</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
201526831<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2015. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of the dark and shadowy Pairs which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city in the culture of France itself and by extension throughout the world. Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses Sante whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted pre-Haussmann streets through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city.</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
37312London: J. Edwards. 1791. 8vo 195 x 125 mm viii 164pp. with half-title original pink boards rubbed spine rather chipped but still a nice uncut copy. First issue of the title page with the 26th instead of the 28th of March as the first day of the sale. An interesting sale of mysterious ownership put together by James Edwards who had already brought the Pinelli books from Venice for sale in London. The additions came from the library of Cardinal de Brienne and from Italy. The sale also contained Aldines which never existed. Renouard in his Annales de Alde suggested that Edwards had purchased these books in Italy and had used the Italian booksellers notes to catalogue them without having seen them personally. The deception created five fictitious Aldines lot 18 171 206 223 and 526. De Ricci p. 89; Munby and Coral p. 90 Arthur Rau Bibliotheca Parisiana in 'The Book Collector' Autumn 1969. London: [J. Edwards]. 1791 hardcover
190023855Paris 1900. Hardcover. Very good condition. A photographic record of a young American man's tour of Europe and the Paris Exposition accompanied by many beautiful street images of Paris.<br /> <br /> The silver gelatin prints of Paris by the unidentified photographer include wonderful images of Notre Dame cathedral the Eiffel Tower the Opera House Toreador Palace the Church of the Madeleine the Champs Esys and the Arc de Triumph. There are many street scenes including the Rue de Rival L'Avenue de loper Place de la Republic monuments and architecture.<br /> <br /> The tour begins in Scotland and includes a departure at the train station wonderful shot of the train and passengers waiting on the platform as well as thatched roof cottages and gardens castles Edinburgh and London. It concludes with images of the main square in Brussels the Belgian country side and Holland including the iconic windmill shot. The final shot is on board ship the photographer with 2 fellow travelers looking very proud of himself.<br /> <br /> The album 8 x 6". Images 3 x 3 1/2" loosely inserted into card stock mounts. Very good condition; previous owner book plate Michael E. Kate. Three quarter leather and buckram boards the spine leather lacking but the binding intact. hardcover
188959410Paris: n.p. 1889. 4to. 10.5 x 10.75 in. Six individual puzzles individually postcard sized approx. 3.5 x 4.75 in. w/ colour chromolithograph image dissected onto nine wooden pieces each 1 small piece has been supplied in facsimile for upper corner of the Cairo street puzzle. All contained w/in the original deep red paper-covered wooden box raised bed w/in the box to hold the puzzles lid w/ decorative gilt title lettering minor shelfwear very minor rubbing still a VG nearly complete artifact. Very scarce original souvenir puzzle game issued for the fourth great Paris World’s Fair celebrating through pomp and events the Centennial of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession and attracted over 61000 exhibitors as well as 32 million visitors many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower. This puzzle celebrates several of the pavilions at the Exposition including Palais des Beaux-Arts designed by Joseph Brouvard filled with painting and flanking the Eiffel Tower providing visitors; the Palais de Trocadero held over from the famed 1878 Exposition celebrating the renewal of Paris following the Franco-Prussian War; as well as the Ministere de la Guerre which featured an Arms & Armour exhibition as well as displays of knightly tournaments assorted uniforms and cannon. The Maison Egyptienne and Rue au Caire would fuel the Orientalist movement and fascination with the Middle East among artists writers and the industrial arts well into the 20th Century. These boxed puzzle games were quite popular souvenirs as well as educational tools in the Belle Epoque and have become remarkably scarce. No copies in Worldcat. n.p., unknown
187858603Paris: E. Neurdein Editeur Photographie 1878. Seven albumen cabinet card photos. Oblong 8vo. 6 x 3.8 in. mounted on 6.5 x 4.6 in. beige studio cards red & black printed captions red woodcut borders all w/ manuscript annotations on versos minor bowing to boards still VG set w/ bright sharp images. Seven souvenir albumen cabinet card photos chronicling the third great Paris World’s Fair proclaiming through pomp and events that the Third Republic had rebounded from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune Revolt. The Exposition was far larger than any previously held occupying over 66 acres featuring an Avenue des Nations elaborate exhibition palaces the completed head of the Statue of Liberty and the first Exposition to feature outdoor electric lighting with massive arc lights. These images include the an updated public aquarium featuring undersea grottoes inspired by Jules Verne stories the Palais de Trocadero the Palais du Champ de Mars statue of the Republic the Galerie du Travail showing stoves weaving machines and more; as well as the statuary in the Grande Galerie Italienne. Etienne Neurdein 1832-after 1915 and his brother Louis Antonin 1840-after 1915 were intrepid traveling photographers throughout French Northern Africa particularly the Sahara and Algeria in the 1870’s and also known for portraiture and monuments photos. They were later awarded the status as official photographers of both 1889 and 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. See: Arthur Chandler Heroism in Defeat The Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878 World’s Fair Magazine Vol. VI No. 4 1986; Orientalist Photography: Part One -- 19th Century Neurdein Brothers Twicemodern in Photography Jan 27 2013. E. Neurdein, Editeur Photographie, hardcover
189061004Paris: E. Dentu Editeur Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Letteres 1890. Four Vols. Folio. 9.75 x 13 in. xxxi 1 666 2; 4 618 2; 4 670 2; 8 pp unpaginated. with 82 engravings on 70 plates many double-page. Extra-illustrated title page frontispiece in vol. I 100’s of text woodcut-engravings tables diagrams charts decorated head- and tail-pieces decorated initials. Uniformly bound in elaborately decorated gray-lilac-coloured cloth embossed decorative borders in burgundy-colour gilt lettering front covers & spines t.e.g. minor edgewear inner hinges starting in a few places due to weight of the textblock minor wear and slight bumping to corners darkening and more wear to Atlas volume still a VG set. First edition of this nicely printed and weighty set chronicling the fourth great Paris World’s Fair an extraordinary Exposition which refashioned Paris and celebrated the Centennial of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession and attracted over 61000 exhibitors as well as 32 million visitors many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower and even a profit of 8000000 francs. This lavish production details the development and history of the Exposition the construction of the Eiffel Tower as well as the development of the sites along the Seine. The companion album includes 82 woodcut-engraved images executed by such artists as Baude Baulenaz and Hauger many of them from original photographs shot by Messiers J. Levy et Cie. Levy had also shot photographs for the 1867 Paris L’Exposition Universelle and his photos captured many views of the exhibition grounds and buildings and focused on many in the Javanese Tonkin and Streets of Cairo attractions. E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Letteres, hardcover
197723721<p>Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Limited Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine acetate dust jacket. This is 1/200 numbered copies with a corduroy binding. Harry Crosby the nephew of banker/financier J.P. Morgan died in 1929 at the age of 31 in a double suicide pact in a New York hotel with one of his mistresses. What brought this priviledged Bostonian to such an abrupt end is not so eay to explain. When America officially entered the First World War he volunteered with the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps. It was during the the Battle of Orme that an artillery shell exploded next to him killing everyone nearby but sparing Harry. From that point on he was obsessed with death and the brilliance of the sun. He moved to Paris int he early 20s living the bohemian life with his fellow expatriates indulging himself in all of the taboos as if to challenge death to take him. These diaries record his fascination with travel exotic intoxicants open marriage and above all--death. It has been said by a contemporary that when Harry died so died the Lost Generation.</p> Black Sparrow Press, hardcover
1878004906Paris and London: No Publisher 1878. Two items both from the Exposition Universelle Paris in 1878. First item - embossed binding title in gilt to upper cover folding out to approximately 1330mm in length; second item - card cover 64mo in size folding out to approximately 735mm in length probably published by Bodega. Minor rubbing but generally fairly bright and clean. Concertina style view books of the exhibition the larger one showing several of the buildings for different countries and of Parisian landmarks the smaller one including Notre Dame and the Champs Elisees. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 16mo. No Publisher Hardcover
194222608ENew York: Random House 1942. First Edition First Printing. With a New York Herald Tribune clipping laid-in dated April 26 1942 reviewing this book. Decorative endpapers. Near fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to the lettering at the spine without dust jacket. Elliot Paul was one of the noted American Paris expatriates of the 1920s co-editor of Transition magazine and knew all the notables of the period. Of the flowering of writing that came out of 1920s Paris Paul is the only American to write a lengthy memoir of what it was like to interact and immerse oneself in the people of his Paris neighborhood. This book is basically the story of the lives of the people of the street on which he lived the Rue de la Huchette. Paul lived there for the better part of 18 years until the Nazi occupation of France prevented his return. A genuine classic. Random House unknown
200425973<p>New York:: Barnes & Noble Books 2004. First Printing of this Reprint Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Stephen Longstreet traces the long-standing migration of Americans to the City of Light beginning with Robert Fulton who operated his first successful steamboat on the Seine James McNeill Whistler who first went to Paris as an art student up through the Lost Generation of artists and writers and the subsequent post World War II writers and publishers.</p> Barnes & Noble Books, hardcover
1961AARns[PA86Paris: 1960; 1961. 1961. 2 Vols. folios. pp. 51; 53. illus. throughout some colour. wrs. [Paris: 1960; 1961]. unknown
188329116Paris: Administration Imprimerie A. Lahure 1883. First edition. Folio 18 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches unpaged profusely illustrated with b&w and color lithographs including vignettes full page and some double page. Decorated cloth printed in colors. A near fine and bright copy. PARIS ILLUSTRÉ an elaborately illustrated periodical commenced publication on May 1883 and ran until 1906. This the first volume is complete in 9 parts: AU SALON DE 1883; VILLÉGIATURE ET BAINS DE MER; EXPOSITION D'AMSTERDAM; POUR LRS ENFANT; A ISCHIA; EXPOSITION NATIONALE; AU TONKIN; ÉNTRENNES; EXPOSITION DE NICE. Among the authors are: Alexandre Dumas Jules Gros Victor Hugo C. Saint-Saens et al. The illustrations are by the leading artist of France<br /> <br /> A serial devoted to fine printing and progress in the graphic arts. Administration (Imprimerie A. Lahure) unknown
196428689New York:: Scribners 1964. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket.with wear to the front panel and a faint water stain to the real panel that does not affect the binding or the text. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as an expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife Hadley. Other people featured in the book include Aleister Crowley Ezra Pound F. Scott Fitzgerald Ford Madox Ford Evan Shipman Hilaire Belloc Pascin John Dos Passos Wyndham Lewis James Joyce Gertrude Stein and Hermann von Wedderkop. The book was not published during Hemingway's lifetime but edited from his manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow Mary Hemingway. It was published posthumously in 1964 three years after Hemingway's death. Scribners, unknown
196426780New York::: Scribners 1964. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket. with a thin printing abrasion to the rear panel. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as an expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife Hadley. Other people featured in the book include Aleister Crowley Ezra Pound F. Scott Fitzgerald Ford Madox Ford Evan Shipman Hilaire Belloc Pascin John Dos Passos Wyndham Lewis James Joyce Gertrude Stein and Hermann von Wedderkop. The book was not published during Hemingway's lifetime but edited from his manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow Mary Hemingway. It was published posthumously in 1964 three years after Hemingway's death. Scribners,, unknown
199823339<p>Athens:: Ohio University Press 1998. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. James Farrell and his wife Dorothy spent one year living in Paris between 1931 and 1932. While the amount of time may have been short the effect on Farrell's writing career was great. Edgar Branch has used interviews diaries and letters from Farrell to bring to life this most influential year in the life of a burgeoning author. While in Paris Farrell wrote short stories and the novels Young Lonigan and Gas-House McGinty.</p> Ohio University Press, hardcover
200326113Berkeley:: University of California Press 2003. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy of this paperback exhibition catalog in stiff paper binding. 264 pp. This is the first book to capture the diversity of American artistic production of the interwar period in Paris. Assembling works from American and European collections to illustrate the presence of American artists at the heart of numerous avant-garde movements including Purism geometric abstraction and surrealism A Transatlantic Avant-Garde chronicles an uncertain time of transition when many American artists resisted the nationalist trends of Stieglitz and his circle and flooded the French capital seeking artistic exchange. This richly illustrated book includes over 200 color reproductions of artwork by both American artists and those European artists with whom they came in contact including Alexander Calder Stuart Davis Charles Demuth Albert Eugene Gallatin Jean Helion and Fernand Leger as well as those from the surrealist circles such as Joseph Cornell Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. It also includes portraits of the illustrious characters by Berenice Abbott Lee Miller and Edward Steichen. This book reflects the transatlantic dialogue of the era by bringing together groundbreaking research in eight essays by both American and French authors. It is further enriched by a detailed chronology bibliography and illustrated insets that trace the incessant travel encounters and ensuing friendships exhibitions and publications of the American avant-garde. University of California Press, paperback
197528421University Park:: Penn State University Press 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Robert Menzies McAlmon became a central figure of the Lost Generation. After marrying the English poet and novelist Bryher McAlmon expatriated to Paris where his friendship with Joyce Stein Hemingway and other young Left Bank writers led him to begin publishing Contact Editions which although financially unsuccessful presented the works of many authors who were later to become well-known.This biography of McAlmon offers a comprehensive picture of McAlmon's dealings with the geniuses of modern literature. The author explores the life of Robert McAlmon through his own writing; through the memoirs autobiographies and biographies of his contemporaries; and through his correspondence with such figures as Ezra Pound Kay Boyle H.D. William Carlos Williams Katherine Anne Porter and Sylvia Beach including a number of previously unpublished letters. Penn State University Press, unknown
199726928Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press 1997. First Paperback Printing. A Very Good square copy with some sunning to the spine. Review copy with slip laid-in. This book is Pizer's study of seven major works by Paris expatriates that includes: Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" and "The Sun Also Rises" Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Anais Nin's "Diary" Dos Passo's "Nineteen-Nineteen" Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." Louisiana State University Press, paperback
196928545<p>New York:: Doubleday 1969. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy signed by the author. The author focuses his history of American artists in Paris on Henry Miller Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein e.e. cummings Man Ray and Virgil Thomson.</p> Doubleday, hardcover
196928723<p>New York:: Doubleday 1969. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Wickes documents the legendary community of writers and artists in Paris Gertrude Stein's arrival in 1903 to Henry Miller's departure in 1939. He depicts the unique artistic atmosphere that dominated Paris with creation and exploration that included the activites of Virgil Thomson Man Ray Ernest Hemingway and e.e. cummings to name just a few. Illustrated with photographs.</p> Doubleday, hardcover
198428930Ann Arbor:: The Olivia & Hill Press 1984. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. This historical street guide to Paris is organized by streets in alphabetical order indicating those Americans who have lived on that street. The list of Americans includes: adventurers architects musicians diplomats inventors journalists writers painters and military men. Illustrated with photographs and maps. The Olivia & Hill Press, unknown
197729460<p>Chicago:: Contemporary Books Inc 1977. First Printing.of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with an abrasion to the front pastedown in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear. This account of the expatriate community in Paris between the wars focuses on the American writers composers and artists who made the bookstores cabarets cafes and salons their playgrounds where many of their creative endeavors were germinated. Includes 200 photographs some never before published.</p> Contemporary Books, Inc, hardcover
197727521<p>Chicago:: Contemporary Books Inc 1977. First Printing.of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This account of the expatriate community in Paris between the wars focuses on the American writers composers and artists who made the bookstores cabarets cafes and salons their playgrounds where many of their creative endeavors were germinated. Includes 200 photographs some never before published.</p> Contemporary Books, Inc, hardcover
