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198723343<p>London:: Unwin Hyman 1987. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket . "A collage of Left-Bank expatriate life as it was experienced by the Hemingway generation" this work benefits from Carpenter's wealth of rich memoir material engaging style and acute eye for lively anecdote. He also accepts the stereotype of the Lost Generation's decade-long party chiefly remarkable for the fun it afforded the participants and subsequent myths of artistic brilliance.</p> Unwin Hyman, hardcover
200627342<p>New York:: Faber & Faber 2006. First Printing of First Edition. . A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Foujita went to Paris in the 1920s and quickly became a member of the "Paris School" of art that also included Picasso and Modigliani. He was best known for his paintings and drawings of cats and his flamboyant dress and behaviour. But with the approach of the Second World War he traveled back to Japan where he ultimately painted for the war effort under the militarists who governed Japan. After the war he was scorned for his devotion to the militarists and eventually returned to France where he lived until his death.</p> Faber & Faber, hardcover
196323342<p>New York:: Simon & Schuster 1963. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a short closed edge tear to the front panel and light wear to the spine. Hawkins was the Paris Herald's managing editor from 1915 to 1960. The New York Herald's Paris edition began in 1887 and as Paris became more American the Paris Herald followed suit. Managing editor Eric Hawkins felt his paper was "an incubator for the most colorful competent and sometimes crazy newspapermen that ever populated a city room." Hawkins recaptures that long-lost generation of writers not just the usual suspects Hemingway Fitzgerald Janet Flanner Henry Miller but a parade of foreign correspondents culture columnists magazine freelancers for The Boulevardier and Paris Comet poets and novelists.There is much in this memoir of Paris in the 20s and those who made it an historical period.</p> Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197228779<p>Washington DC::: National Cash Register Co 1972. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a closed edge tear. This book brings the people and events portrayed in Ernest Hemingway's classic novel "The Sun Also Rises" into a clearer focus through interviews with prototypes as well as their friends and relatives. It also sheds light on Hemingway's techniques as a writer.</p> National Cash Register Co,, hardcover
199924408<p>Woodstock:: Overlook Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The legendary friendship--and rivalry--of these literary giants was compellingly chronicled by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast but as Hemingway reminded the reader that book is fiction. Here in Fitzgerald and Hemingway leading scholar Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologizing to create a true multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration jealousy and liquor--a heady mixture of literary scholarship history and gossip. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins the artist/socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy Zelda Fitzgerald and Hadley Hemingway Gertrude Stein John Dos Passos Archibald MacLeish agent Harold Ober publisher Horace Liveright and Lady Duff Twysden Scott Donaldson recounts the glory and pain of a writing life and the rise and fall of the great literary friendship of our time.</p> Overlook Press, hardcover
199922087<p>Woodstock:: Overlook Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this volume the author recounts the friendship and rivalry of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway that began in Paris in the 1920s and lasted long after their deaths. Prize-winning biographer Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologyzing to create a true multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration jealousy and liquor-a heady mixture of literary scholarship history and gossip. The friendship started in Paris and the French Riviera where the more famous Fitzgerald introduced novice writer Hemingway to Gertrude Stein and socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy. As the years progressed the friendship became as mercurial and complex as the writers themselves. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins Zelda Fitzgerald and Hadley Hemingway and writers Morley Callaghan and Edmund Wilson Scott Donaldson recounts the glory and pain the great literary friendship of our time.</p> Overlook Press, hardcover
201529424New York:: Yucca Publishing 2015. First Paperback Printing. A Fine unread copy in illustrated paperback binding. Hemingway’s Paris depicts a story of remarkable passionfor a city a woman and a time. It is all still there for the reader and traveler to experiencethe history the streets and the city. Restaurants hotels homes sites and favorite bars are all detailed here. The ninety-five black-and-white photographs in Hemingway’s Paris are of the highest caliber. The accompanying text reveals Wheeler’s deep understanding of Hemingway: his torment his talent the obstacles he faced and the places of refuge needed to nurture one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century. Yucca Publishing, paperback
196526306<p>New York:: Hawthorn 1965. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a blank book plate on the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Kiley was a restaurant owner and close friend of Hemingway Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis and other expatriates in Paris in the 1920s. He was also the editor of The Boulevardier magazine in Paris and in this memoir Kiley sheds a fresh light on the exploits of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and others in Paris community.</p> Hawthorn, hardcover
199028728New York:: Doubleday 1990. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. the In Transition magazine was first published in 1927 and quickly became the most exciting literary magazine in Paris in the 1920s featuring the work of Gide Joyce Picasso Kafka Stein Miro and many many others on the cutting edge of literary expression and art. Doubleday, unknown
199027631<p>New York:: Doubleday 1990. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. the In Transition magazine was first published in 1927 and quickly became the most exciting literary magazine in Paris in the 1920s featuring the work of Gide Joyce Picasso Kafka Stein Miro and many many others on the cutting edge of literary expression and art.</p> Doubleday, hardcover
198729079<p>Bloomington:: Indiana University Press 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good dust jacket.with evidence of a sticker removal from the spine James Joyce and Sylvia Beach had both a professional and personal relationship that began in Paris in the 1920s but it was Beach's decision to publish Joyce's magnum opus Ulysses that made literary history. This collection of Joyce's correspondence with Beach includes letters postcards telegrams and verses that provide a more intimate look at their often tempestuous realtionship.</p> Indiana University Press, hardcover
198729119Bloomington:: Indiana University Press 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. James Joyce and Sylvia Beach had both a professional and personal relationship that began in Paris in the 1920s but it was Beach's decision to publish Joyce's magnum opus Ulysses that made literary history. This collection of Joyce's correspondence with Beach includes letters postcards telegrams and verses that provide a more intimate look at their often tempestuous realtionship. Indiana University Press, unknown
202228864New York:: Norton 2022. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In 1920s Paris Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer sold out gallery showings of her paintings starred in Surrealist films and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir-featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway-made front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America. Charting Kiki and Man Ray's volatile relationship award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki’s seminal influence not only on Man Ray’s art but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond. As provocative and magnetically irresistible as Kiki herself Kiki Man Ray is the story of an exceptional life that will challenge ideas about artists and muses-and the lines separating the two. Norton, unknown
202228960New York:: Norton 2022. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In 1920s Paris Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer sold out gallery showings of her paintings starred in Surrealist films and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir-featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway-made front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America. Charting Kiki and Man Ray's volatile relationship award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki’s seminal influence not only on Man Ray’s art but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond. As provocative and magnetically irresistible as Kiki herself Kiki Man Ray is the story of an exceptional life that will challenge ideas about artists and muses-and the lines separating the two. Norton, unknown
196727495London:: Cassell 19678. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner inscription on flyleaf in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This is the author's memoir of being in expatriate Paris in the 1920s while he was a student at the Sorbonne. Kiki Alice Prin was a cutural staple in Paris in the 20s a model and muse to many artists. The author writes of her and the city of light affectionately. Kohner went on to write several novels the most popular being the "Gidget" series. Cassell, unknown
193029228Paris:: Black Manikin Press 1930. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in cream colored paper wraps in protective mylar jacket. First English Translation. Kiki was one of the most colorful and well known inhabitants in Paris in the 1920s; she worked as an artist's model impromptu cafe performer and lover to Man Ray and other artists. Kiki's memoirs are a lively account of the bohemian lifestyle typical among the artists in Paris during the 1920s with an introduction provided by Ernest Hemingway. She tells of her encounters with Man Ray Tsuguharu Foujita Moïse Kisling Jean Cocteau Kees van Dongen Chaïm Soutine and others. The memoirs were first published in English in 1930 but due to their sometimes explicit content were banned in the United States until the 1970s.This is an increasingly difficult memoir from the expatriate Paris crowd. Only 1000 copies of this edition printed. Black Manikin Press, paperback
199628309New York:: Ecco Press 1996. First Printing of the First Ecco Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small closed edge tear. .Known as the queen of Montparnasse Kiki was the quintessential artists' muse and model. She epitomized the verve of 1920s Paris--with her strong and alluring face and graceful and voluptuous body--and became a modern icon in the photographs of her longtime lover Man Ray. First published in 1929 and promptly banned in the U.S. Kiki's account of herself as a "love child" who suffered profound emotional and physical deprivation is a work of great wit and elan. She wrote about her youth again for a Paris newspaper just a few years before her death and these reminiscences are frank elegantly understated and truly moving. Kiki survived her brutal youth with intelligence and humor making her way to the very heart of the art world where her uninhibited sexuality theatricality and abundant joie de vivre ensured her a life of spirited and celebrated improvisation. Ecco Press, unknown
198926110<p>New York:: Abrams 1989. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This book re-creates the expatriate artist experience in Paris from 1900 to 1930. What brought this international group of artists and writers was the promise of personal and artistic freedom and a community of their peers. And at the center of this international colony of creative individuals was Kiki the Queen of the Quarter. She was an artist's model entertainer and lover to many of the residents and visitors to Montparnasse. This encyclopedic biography of a time and place features over 700 illustrations many of the photographs have not been previously published or at least seen since the 20s and 12 area maps.</p> Abrams, hardcover
193222586<p>New York:: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith Inc. 1932. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy lacking the paper dust jacket. Artist and writer Nina Hamnett was a prominent figure in Paris in the Twenties who was known affectionately as the Queen of Bohemia. She knew all the major artists in Paris and often modeled for them. She also made and decorated fabrics clothes mural furniture and rugs at the Omega Workshops directed by Roger Fry Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. "Laughing torso" was a bestseller in both England and the United States.</p> Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., hardcover
201829297<p>New York:: Henry Holt 2018. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with wear to the board edges and a discreet remainder dot on bottom edge in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this tour of Paris during one of its most trying significant and ultimately triumphant eras Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets writers painters and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century from Richard Wright's Native Son Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Saul Bellow's Augie March along with the origin stories of now legendary movements from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd New Journalism bebop and French feminism. We follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as young men peek inside Picasso's studio and trail the twists of Camus's Sartre's and Beauvoir's epic love stories. We witness the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals and peer through keyholes to see the first kisses and last nights of many ill-advised bedfellows.</p> Henry Holt, hardcover
192522443<p>Paris:: Le Livre de Demain/Artheme Fayard & Cie 1925. First Edition Thus. . A Very Good copy in original orange wrappers printed in black and red price label afixed to front cover in a later board slipcase. 175 pp. 28 illustrations after woodcuts by Foujita. Wrappers are rubbed and partially separated though intact with loss to one corner. Many titles were published in this series of "Le Livre de Demain" but this volume is partically collectible because of the witty woodcuts by the young expatriate Japanese artist primarily known for his cat paintings and illustrations. There is not a cat to be found in any of these woodcuts which makes this production even more special.</p> Le Livre de Demain/Artheme Fayard & Cie, paperback
199726390<p>Chicago :: University of Chicago Press 1997. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. This volume of letters and photographs by the man who was nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller chronicles Brassai's early life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 30s.</p> University of Chicago Press, hardcover
197128623New York:: Viking Press 1971. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. This biographic portrait of Sara and Gerald Murphy paints the picture of the perfect couple to express the the joie de vivre that represented Paris in the 1920s. The Murphy's entertained the Fitzgeralds Hemingway Picasso Leger Cole Porter and served as the models for Fitzgeralds Dick and Nicole Diver in his novel Tender is the Night. Gerald was also an accomplished painter in his own right and they both exuded the idealism of the most extraordinary decade in Paris and on the Riviera. Illustrated with sixty-seven photographs. Viking Press, unknown
199321728<p>Silver Spring: :: Enigma Books 1993. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. When he wrote this memoir over sixty years ago the author planned a privately printed edition as gifts for his friends. He chose a pseudonym W.W. Windstaff to avoid embarrassing his socially prominent family. His true identity remains a secret. In a unique style Lower than Angels captures the essence of war with wonderfully descriptive passages of air combat and life in Paris and Rome during the 1920s. Later Windstaff vividly memorializes the expatriate experience. More than simply a memoir of fascinating times Lower than Angels is a raw and powerful portrayal of a man who could not overcome the trauma of war and survived with a veneer of cynicism aided by the bottle. Lower than Angles will certainly be appreciated for its value as an historical record. It will also captivate readers with its charm and delight a wide audience.</p> Enigma Books, hardcover
202229141New York:: St Martin's Press 2022. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with slight curling to several preliminary pages in a Fine dust jacket. At the center of Paris in the 1920s was the gorgeous seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship. Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound Aldous Huxley Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore her mother’s lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy’s father was the longest-lasting of her life. Nancy from an early age was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Highly intelligent a gifted poet and widely read she founded The Hours small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. A muse to many she was also a courageous crusader against racism and fascism. She left Paris in 1933 at the end of its most glittering years and remained unafraid to live life on the edge until her death in 1965. St Martin's Press, unknown
