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[Paris in the 30s] Bernier, Olivier.
Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties.
<p>Boston:: Little Brown & Company 1993. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In 1930 Paris dazzled as its painters writers composers and designers invented modernity. But in 1935 the Great Depression had caught up with the French as Fascists and Communists fought in the streets and war loomed as Hitler and Mussolini grew more menacing. The author presents a cultural history of Paris in the '30s--its last brilliant moment as a world capital. Drawing on newspapers memoirs and eyewitness accounts he juggles the parallel lives of Picasso Stravinsky Cocteau Gide Josephine Baker Elsa Schiaparelli Max Ernst Janet Flanner and many others. Bernier offers withering profiles of a succession of incompetent unscrupulous politicians who contributed to France's failure of will. He shows how the rage for the modern that marked the beginning of the decade gave way to alienation anguish befuddlement and a headlong retreat into the past.</p> Little, Brown & Company, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23149 ISBN : 0316092754 9780316092753
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[Paris in the 1920s] Hawkins, Eric and Robert Sturdevant.
Hawkins of the Paris Herald.
<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
Bookseller reference : 23342
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[Paris in the 1920s] Carpenter, Humphrey.
Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s.
<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
Bookseller reference : 23343 ISBN : 0395464161 9780395464168
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[Paris in the 30s] Branch, Edgar Marquess.
A Paris Year: Dorothy and James T. Farrell 1931-1932.
<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
Bookseller reference : 23339 ISBN : 0821412361 9780821412367
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Paris in the 1920s McAlmon Robert.
Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930. Revised and with supplementary chapters by Kay Boyle.
<p>London: :: Michael Joseph 1970. First Printing of the First English Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. McAlmon was one of the central figures in the expatriate community of artists in Paris in the 1920s and in his memoirs he recount how life there unfolded. Originally published in 1938 in the UK only the true first edition is extremely rare but this revised edition whereby Kay Boyle adds her own perspective of the period alongside McAlmon's original memories that she has corrected.</p> Michael Joseph, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22907 ISBN : 0718107241 9780718107246
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[Paris in the 1920s] Wiser, William.
The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s.
<p>New York:: Carroll & Graf 2000. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. Wiser author of The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties provides readers with Paris's next historical chapter in a wonderfully detailed unflinching period description. Focusing primarily on the art scene Wiser re-creates the slow slide from the lingering euphoria of the '20s to the doubts of the '30s. The suicide of painter Jules Pascin recounted in Wiser's first chapter serves as an emblem for the era a period in which fascism and economic crisis loomed and Bohemia began to sour.</p> Carroll & Graf, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22864 ISBN : 0786707860 9780786707867
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[Paris Architecture] White, Norval.
The Guide to the Architecture of Paris.
<p>New York:: Scribners 1991. First Paperback Printing. A Fine tight copy of this paperback original. There was no hardcover edition of this title. The author documents more than 2000 Paris buildings monuments parks with 58 walking tours and 25 maps. Fully illustrated.</p> Scribners, paperback
Bookseller reference : 22863 ISBN : 0684192934 9780684192932
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[Paris in the 1920s] Ford, Hugh.
Four Lives in Paris with a Foreword by Glenway Wescott.
<p>San Francisco:: North Point Press 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hugh Ford profiles four creative expatriates in Paris who have been overshadowed by a host of more highly visible writers and artists: Composer George Antheil who was nicknamed the Bad Boy of Music Kay Boyle a writer whose early life in Paris was as turbulent as it was productive Harold Stearns traded the life of a social and political critic in New York for a subsistance life in Paris among the Lost Generation and Margaret Anderson left her editorship fo the Little Review in New York in search for a more spiritual life in Paris. Each of these stories shed fresh light on the glory years of Paris in the Twenties.</p> North Point Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22867 ISBN : 0865472505 9780865472501
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[Paris Culture] Sante, Luc.
The Other Paris.
<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
Bookseller reference : 26831
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[Paris in the 1920s] Ford, Hugh.
Published in Paris. American and British Writers Printers and Publishers in Paris 1920-1939
<p>New York:: Macmillan 1975. First Printing of the First Edition. . A Fine copy in a Fine ubclipped dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the rear panel. This is the most complete history of the publishing and literary world of Paris in the period between the two wars. Here are the stories behind the early published works of Hemingway Stein Miller Nin Hart Crane Sylvia Beach Nancy Cunard James Joyce and many other important literary figures who found their voice and first audience in Paris.</p> Macmillan, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26468 ISBN : 0025396005 9780025396005
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Paris in the 1920s Anderson Sherwood.
France and Sherwood Anderson: Paris Notebook 1921.
<p>Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University 1976. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This slim volume 102 pages represents the first publication of Sherwood Anderson's notebook in which he documented his first trip to Paris in 1921. During this trip Anderson met Sylvia Beach James Joyce Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein and Andre Gide and his experiences in France had a profound effect on his thinking and would shape the fictional themes that would appear in his later works. The editor Michael Fanning has included excerpts from Anderson's letters and the writings of French critics as well as his own introductory and critical chapters.</p> Louisiana State University, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26293
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[Paris in the 20s] Kiley, Jed.
Hemingway: An Old Friend Remembers.
<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
Bookseller reference : 26306
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[Paris in the 1920s] Brassai.
Letters to My Parents. Translated from the Hungarian by Peter Laki and Barna Kantor.
<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
Bookseller reference : 26390 ISBN : 0226071464 9780226071466
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[Paris in the 1920s] Cronin, Vincent.
Paris: City of Light 1919-1939.
<p>London :: Harper Collins 1994. Second Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Vincent Cronin shows in this compelling and original book - which encompasses social intellectual political and cultural history - the full picture of the cultural life in Paris between the wars. He also examines developments in the arts fashion and politics and has something surprising to say about each of them; but also investigates the achievements of Parisian philosophers and industrialists.</p> Harper Collins, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26220 ISBN : 000215191X 9780002151917
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Paris Photography Brassai.
The Secret Paris of the 30's.
<p>New York:: Pantheon 1976. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with just a touch of edge wear. The Secret Paris of the '30s is one of the most evocative photographic memoirs ever published. For years it was known that Brassai had taken a series of 'secret photographs' which could not be published because of their daring nature. Alone or in the company of friends he discovered the forbidden Paris of the 1930s - its brothels whores pimps and opium dens - the sordid yet bewitching bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld. Brassai's photographs reveal a milieu previously known only through books such as the novels of Henry Miller a frequent companion on his nocturnal rambles: the seamy grimy yet infinitely exciting reality that tourists still think of when they seek 'Paris by night'. These fascinating images are accompanied by Brassai's own text in which he describes the extraordinary conditions under which he took his photographs.</p> Pantheon, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26004 ISBN : 0394408411 9780394408415
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[Expatriate Paris Art] Turner, Elizabeth Hutton.
Americans in Paris: Man Ray Gerald Murphy Stuart Davis Alexander Calder.
<p>Washington D.C.:: Counterpoint 1996. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. "Americans in Paris" documents the work and influence of these four notable artists of the avant-garde who flowered during the 1920s in Paris. Turner follows the development of four Americans who came to Paris during the Twenties and returned to the US with renewed enthusiasm for their art. The book features the photography of Man Ray who brought Dadism to New York. Gerald Murphy who honed his minimalist post cubist cityscapes here and Stuart Davis who produced some of his best tightly constructed surrealist cubism-influenced paintings. Alexander Calder developed the new medium of bent and twisted wire as art and the never imagined mobile. Included with all this is Guy Davenport's trenchant essay explicating this art and of Paris as the eternal attraction for artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Richly illustrated with 39 color and 103 b&w images.</p> Counterpoint, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25976 ISBN : 1887178139 9781887178136
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Paris Expatriates Longstreet Stephen.
We All Went to Paris: Americans in the City of Light 1776-1971.
<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
Bookseller reference : 25973
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[Paris in the 1920s] Meral, Jean.
Paris in American Literature. Translated by Laurette Long.
<p>Chapel Hill: :: University of North Carolina 1989. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with two creases to the front flap. Meral explores the ways in which Paris constitutes an authentic literary subject and analyzes the differing responses to the city of such American writers as Henry James Edith Wharton Ernest Hemingway John Dos Pasos and Henry Miller. Central is that idea that although literary Paris reflects the changing fortunes of real Paris the Paris depicted remains a uniquely American one because the heroes of the works are expatriate Americans who apprehend the city through a foreign sensibility.</p> University of North Carolina, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25853 ISBN : 0807818038 9780807818039
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Paris in the 1920s Morton Brian.
Americans in Paris: An Anecdotal Street Guide.
<p>Ann Arbor:: The Olivia & Hill Press 1984. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of edge wear to the spine. 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.</p> The Olivia & Hill Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25798 ISBN : 0934034060 9780934034067
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[Paris in the 1920s] McAlmon, Robert.
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self Portrait. Edited with a Commentary by Robert Knoll.
<p>Lincoln :: University of Nebraska 1962. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine. McAlmon was a major fixture in the expatriate community of Paris in the 20s. He was at the center of the avant-garde literary scene and founded one of the more important small literary presses that published many of the soon to be important writers in Paris. For the most part McAlmon has gone unrecognized for his contributions to the period both as a personality and a writer but this anthology of his writings goes a long ways in correcting that and setting straight the record of McAlmon's importance .</p> University of Nebraska, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25618
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[Bohemian Paris] Seigel, Jerrold.
Bohemian Paris: Culture Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930.
<p>New York:: Viking 1986. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with sunning to the spine and the top edge of the front panel. Seigel has written an important work one which monitors the development of an extraordinary counterculture through all its evolutions and ambiguities during a constantly changing period of French history. Bohemian Paris was of course a uniquely creative entity; its art ideas literature and lifestyles influenced and were influenced by the bourgeois world that was simultaneously taking shape. Seigel combines a sophisticated command of French history with an authoritative understanding of those who populated Bohemian Paris e.g. Courbet Rimbaud Zola and Cocteau. Though not an easy book this represents a major contribution to social and intellectual history.</p> Viking, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25231 ISBN : 0670807230 9780670807239
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[Paris in the 1920s] McAlmon, Robert.
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self Portrait. Edited with a Commentary by Robert Knoll.
<p>Lincoln :: University of Nebraska 1962. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with slight moisture rippling to the real panel. McAlmon was a major fixture in the expatriate community of Paris in the 20s. He was at the center of the avant-garde literary scene and founded one of the more important small literary presses that published many of the soon to be important writers in Paris. For the most part McAlmon has gone unrecognized for his contributions to the period both as a personality and a writer but this anthology of his writings goes a long ways in correcting that and setting straight the record of McAlmon's importance .</p> University of Nebraska, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25300
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[Paris in the 20s] Root, Waverley; Abt, Samuel (editor).
The Paris Edition : 1927-1934.
<p>San Francisco:: North Point Press 1987. Uncorrected Proof. A Very Good plus copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof with some sunning to the spine. Publisher's original press release laid in. This is the previously unpublished memoirs of Waverly Root who was a reporter editor and food writer who worked for the Paris Edition of the Chicago Tribune from the late 20s into the early 30s. Best known in later life as an authority on the food of France and Italy Root who died in 1982 became a newspaperman with the Paris Edition of the Chicago Tribune in 1927 and these memoirs of his early years there describe a time and a world that continue to attract thousands of Americans. As he shows in this charming memoirone of the most pleasant ever written about Paris and about journalismlife on the Trib could be both funny and exasperating. Here are amusing encounters with Col. Robert McCormick the paper's eccentric dictatorial owner; Harold Stearns the master borrower among the expatriates; Robert McAlmon cadaverous poet publisher of little magazines indefatigable cafe sitter and party-goer; petite Louisette the handmaiden of the newspaper staff. Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis Charles Lindbergh William L. Shirer and Gertrude Stein are tantalizingly glimpsed. Abt is an editor on the International Herald Tribune in Paris.</p> North Point Press, paperback
Bookseller reference : 25329 ISBN : 0865472769 9780865472761
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Paris in the 1920s Haright Mary Ellen Jordan.
Paris Portraits: Renoir to Chanel. Walks on the Right Bank.
<p>Salt Lake City :: Peregrin Smith 1991. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus paperback copy in illustrated wraps. No hardcover edition. The author pieces together the artistic scene of the Right Bank from about 1850-1950 the times of Renoir Matisse Manet Picasso Stein Chanel and Cardin the post World War I era and the Paris avant -garde.</p> Peregrin Smith, paperback
Bookseller reference : 25504 ISBN : 0879053615 9780879053611
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[Paris in the 1920's] Greenfield, Howard.
They Came to Paris.
<p>New York:: Crown 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. The author delivers an informative overview of the artistic movement to Paris following the end of the First World War and ending with the stock market crash in 1929. Greenfield profiles all the major art music and literary figures and puts them in the context of the times of search for new identities and purposes. Illustrated with period photos.</p> Crown, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24777 ISBN : 0517518481 9780517518489
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[Paris in the 1920s] .
Parisian Fields. Edited by Michael Sheringham.
<p>Paris in the 1920s . Parisian Fields. Edited by Michael Sheringham. London:: Reaktion Books 1996. First Paperback Printing. ISBN: 094846285x. A Very Good plus copy in paperback binding with a crease to a corner of the rear panel. The writers of Parisian Fields investigate how Paris has been both seen and shaped by tourist guides; how its topography has been represented and allegorized by film-makers like Godard Clair Vigo and Renoir; how the city has responded to "new" Parisians – for example Afro-American musicians and dancers such as Josephine Baker – and to previously marginalized Parisians – gays and women. Literary analysis film social and gender theory perspectives on urbanism; here are many provocative and innovative views of the open field of Paris which will appeal to anyone interested in French cultural and literary studies – or just in the City of Light herself. With essays by Roger Clark Nicholas Hewitt Jon Kear Tom Conley Michael Sheringham Alex Hughes Adrian Rifkin Belinda Jack Verena Andermatt Conley and Marc Augé.This collection of essays on the Art & Urbanism of Paris addresses surrealism and film psychoanalysis and feminism new art forms and many other aspects of the City of Light.</p> Reaktion Books,, paperback
Bookseller reference : 24812 ISBN : 094846285X 9780948462856
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(Paris in the 1920s).
Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Edited by Hugh Ford.
<p>Philadelphia::: Chilton 1968. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the heel of the spine. This collection of tributes features contributions by more than 50 of her friends and admirers. Nancy Cunard was a writer heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. In 1920 she moved to Paris where she became involved with literary Modernism Surrealists and Dada. Much of her published poetry dates from this period.She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists in England and Paris including Wyndham Lewis Aldous Huxley Tristan Tzara Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon who were among her lovers Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Constantin Brancusi Langston Hughes Man Ray and William Carlos Williams. In 1928 she founded the Hours Press to support experimental poetry and provide a higher-paying market for young writers; her inherited wealth allowed her to take financial risks that other publishers could not. Hours Press became known for its beautiful book designs and high-quality production. She died in France in 1965.</p> Chilton,, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27067
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[Paris in the 20s].
In Transition: A Paris Anthology. Writing and Art from Transition Magazine 1927-1930.
<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
Bookseller reference : 27631 ISBN : 0385411502 9780385411509
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[Paris in the 1920s] Bald, Wambly.
On The Left Bank 1929-1933.
<p>Athens:: Ohio University Press 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Wambly Bald went to Paris in 1929 and worked for the Chicago Tribune where he wrote a weekly column called "La Vie de Boheme." In this column he tried to capture the energy and spirit of Montparnasse through his accounts of the model Kiki a young writer named Henry Miller Gertrude Stein and Aleister Crowley to name but a few. The serendipitously named Bald is a funny unpretentious writer and because his essays were meant as ephemera they aren't as dated as much as the ""serious"" reportage of the time. These columns were written for The Chicago Tribune like a somewhat cracked society column or in-house newsletter for a wild theater troupe. Bald was a friend of Henry Miller and Hemingway who apparently paid his passage back home in the 1930's. Apart from his wit Bald seems to have been a congenial companion who was almost always drunk. The irony is that this lush of a columnist outlived them all. A great first hand look at the expatriate community at its best and worst.</p> Ohio University Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27591 ISBN : 0821408526 9780821408520
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[Paris in the 1920s] North, Michael.
Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern.
<p>New York:: Oxford University Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. First Printing. Author Michael North takes the year 1922 the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published in which The Great Gatsby was set and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy the Irish Free State was born the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modernism but which served as the cradle for a host of major political and aesthetic transformations resonating around the globe.</p> Oxford University Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27438 ISBN : 019512720X 9780195127201
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[Paris in the 1920s] Flanner, Janet.
Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939. Edited by Irving Drutman.
<p>New York:: Viking 1972. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In 1925 Flanner--an American writer living in Paris--began writing her regular "Letter from Paris" to The New Yorker. The result was her own original brand of journalism that was precise personal colorful and descriptive covering the people places and events unfolding during the most vital period in the modernist period.</p> Viking, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27145 ISBN : 0670539538 9780670539536
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[Paris Culture] Sante, Luc.
The Other Paris.
<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
Bookseller reference : 27030
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[Paris Bourgeois] Seigel, Jerrold.
Bohemian Paris: Culture Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930.
<p>New York:: Viking 1985. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's original promotional newsletter laid in. Seigel has written an important work one which monitors the development of an extraordinary counterculture through all its evolutions and ambiguities during a constantly changing period of French history. Bohemian Paris was of course a uniquely creative entity; its art ideas literature and lifestyles influenced and were influenced by the bourgeois world that was simultaneously taking shape. The author combines a sophisticated command of French history with an authoritative understanding of those who populated Bohemian Paris e.g. Courbet Rimbaud Zola and Cocteau. Though not an easy book this represents a major contribution to social and intellectual history.</p> Viking, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27046 ISBN : 0670807230 9780670807239
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Jazz Age Paris Blake Jody.
Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris 1900-1930.
<p>Jazz Age Paris Blake Jody. Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris 1900-1930. University Park: Penn State Press 1999. First Printing of the First Edition. ISBN: 0271017538. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus dust jacket with light sunning to the spine that is common wtih this title. In Le Tumulte noir Jody Blake focuses on the impacts of African sculpture and African-American music and dance on Parisian popular entertainment and modernist art literature and performance. Blake discusses the reception of ragtime-era and jazz-age entertainment as well as other African visual and performing art forms to provide new ways of understanding the development of modernist primitivism from Matisse and Picasso to Futurism Dada Surrealism and Purism. But the influence of art nÈgre went well beyond the avant-garde art world. Starting with the cakewalk of the 1900s and culminating with the Charleston of the 1920s the book studies the African-American idioms that were involved in larger cultural social and political developments. As an illustration Blake argues that performers such as Josephine Baker and Sidney Bechet of Revue nÈgre fame were thought to affect the political balance between Africa and Europe during the colonial period. Le Tumulte noir is divided into six chronological chapters each a well-researched well-conceived and well-written synthesis of the histories of art literature music and dance.</p> Penn State Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26915 ISBN : 0271017538 9780271017532
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[Paris in the 1920s] Tomkins, Calvin.
Living Well is The Best Revenge.
<p>New 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.</p> Viking Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28623 ISBN : 0670435910 9780670435913
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Expatriate Paris Art Turner Elizabeth Hutton.
Americans in Paris: Man Ray Gerald Murphy Stuart Davis Alexander Calder.
<p>Washington D.C.:: Counterpoint 1996. First Printing of the First Paperback Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine illustrated paperback binding "Americans in Paris" documents the work and influence of these four notable artists of the avant-garde who flowered during the 1920s in Paris. Turner follows the development of four Americans who came to Paris during the Twenties and returned to the US with renewed enthusiasm for their art. The book features the photography of Man Ray who brought Dadism to New York. Gerald Murphy who honed his minimalist post cubist cityscapes here and Stuart Davis who produced some of his best tightly constructed surrealist cubism-influenced paintings. Alexander Calder developed the new medium of bent and twisted wire as art and the never imagined mobile. Included with all this is Guy Davenport's trenchant essay explicating this art and of Paris as the eternal attraction for artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Richly illustrated with 39 color and 103 b&w images.</p> Counterpoint, paperback
Bookseller reference : 28372 ISBN : 1887178139 9781887178136
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[Paris in the 1920s] McDougall, Richard.
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier. An Intimate Portrait of the Literary and Artistic Life in Paris Between the Wars.
<p>New York:: Scribner's 1976. First Printing. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine bright clipped dust jacket with with light wear to the spine tips. Monnier was the proprietor of the Paris bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres where she featured the works of French authors including Andre Breton Guillaume Appolinaire Jules Romains and Andre Gide. She was also the partner of the other important bookshop owner Sylvia Beach.</p> Scribner's, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28384 ISBN : 0684145022 9780684145020
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[Paris in the 1920s] Huddleston, Sisley.
Back to Montparnasse: Glimpses of Broadway in Bohemia.
<p>London:: George G. Harrap & Company 1931. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light fading to the spine lacking the jacket. In this guide book to the Paris artists and bohemians of the Twenties Huddleston presents Montparnasse in all its fun and glitter along with all the cosmopolitan celebrities and literati. Those included in his portraits are Ernest Hemingway Jean Cocteau Kiki Foujita James Joyce Claude Mackay Ezra Pound and scores of other American French English artists and writers.</p> George G. Harrap & Company, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28388
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[Paris in the 1920s] Cronin, Vincent.
Paris: City of Light 1919-1939.
<p>London :: Harper Collins 1994. Second Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Vincent Cronin shows in this compelling and original book - which encompasses social intellectual political and cultural history - the full picture of the cultural life in Paris between the wars. He also examines developments in the arts fashion and politics and has something surprising to say about each of them; but also investigates the achievements of Parisian philosophers and industrialists.</p> Harper Collins, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28264 ISBN : 000215191X 9780002151917
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Paris Heinen
Always On Your Side-Power of 13: Your Common Sense Guide to Health and Wellness and Roadmap to Empowerment Sustainable Habits and Whole-Person Vitality
Hardback. New. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9798988612810 ISBN : 9798988612812 9798988612
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Diego Restrepo Paris
Art Colection 2024: Diego Restrepo Paris
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9798878978873 ISBN : 9798878978873 9798878978
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Robert Baldwin and Ruth Paris
The Book of Similes
Great Britain: The Leisure Circle. Very Good/Good. 1982. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Book of Similies. Foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Small split to front D/J. This book offers a life-line to the tongue-or nib-tied. These sumilies are chosen for their wit or perception and come from sources as diverse as traditional folk sayings and political gibes from the classic lines of Raymond Chandler to Clive James's latest gem. The quotations are arranged alphabetically to allow either general reading or easy reerence. The aim is to give a phrase for every occasion and to describe all qualities - from the chasteness of Tallulah Bankhead 'I'm as pure as the driven slush' to the feeling of being attawcked verbally by Sir Geoffrey Howe '.like being savafed by a dead sheep'. Illustrations. 150 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions and all types of Educational Reference Literature. . The Leisure Circle hardcover
Bookseller reference : 102081
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Tony Curtis and Barry Paris
Tony Curtis the Autobiography
London England: Heinemann 1994. Hardback First Edition signed Tony Curtiss on Front endpaper Even Elvis wanted to be like Tony Curtis. But for that matter almost every man in the fifties and sixties wanted to be Tony Curtis including Tony Curtis himself. What nobody knew was that all the while Bernie Schwartz of the Bronx was keeping just a step ahead of the crowd trying to invent Tony Curtis for himself. Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw uncensored street-honed .Illustrated. By Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Heinemann Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016746 ISBN : 0434161845 9780434161843
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Jean Paris
Joyce Par Lui-meme french text
Paris: Ecrivains De Tojours. Joyce Par Lui-meme French text by Jean Paris with many illustrations 192pp original pictorial wrappers light wear to cover . We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions and all types of Academic Literature. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Printing. 1961. Ecrivains De Tojours
Bookseller reference : 083620
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John Paris
Melville Goodwin U.S.A.
London England: Robert Hale 1952. This is a novel about a major general - a specialist in combat who became a general through the ambition of his wife Muriel. Gneral Goodwin had led tanks through the turmoil of war with only the usual press attention. But when he pushed aside the tommy gun of a Russian sentry in Berlin he became the focal point of publicity and of the attentions of Dottie Peale. Muriel did not know Dottie and the General soon found himself in fields of action for which he had not been trained. John Marquand has brought a great sympathetic understanding to this highly trained leader in war who had become isolated from the sophisticated world outside the army. Dottie was noticeably attractive in any society and in the freedom of wartime Paris she represented for Mel Goodwin a break in the monotony of high echelon routine. That taste of excitement was not forgotten amidst his much publicized return to New York and Muriel's ambitious planning. Dottie understood Mel's need and was heedlessly eager to satisfy it. And Muriel knew that her husband was a general who could only belong to her by remaining a general. The conflict between these two women and the General's struggle with himself as he searches for a normal life despite his lifetime special training makes the most dramatic novel Mr. Marquand has written.The activities of the Pentagon the excitement of New York the liberties of Paris the crises of battle the life in foreign stations and the quite small-town New England are all part of the General's career and responsibility. Wear and tear to D/J.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Robert Hale Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008978
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SS. PARIS S. S.
Group of Five 5 Menus
The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's best known and largest ocean liner was launched by this French firm in 1916 and this "Aristocrat of the Ocean" crossed from Le Havre France to New York with cruises elsewhere until 1939. Collection of five menus each small 4to 8½" X 11" opening to 17" X 11" with 1936 issue dates of 1 July 16 July two with differing front covers and 3 May two with differing front covers. Very good. Bits of minor wear only. Front covers are all pictorial with inner left bearing the day's menu in French and inner right the same in English -- down the center appears the "Menu Suggestion." Those from July 1st and July 16th both note they are "Raymond-Whitcomb Cruise." July 1st cover depicts a woodblock engraving of a 3-masted ship labeled "Navire Du XVIe Siècle" Ship of the 16th Century and those from July 16th and May 3rd are color reproductions from the "Les Costumes Normands de jadis" French women's fashion series: "Jeune fille de St. Valéry en Caux" "Jeune fille de Cherbourg" "Fermière d'Harcourt près Caën" and "Jeune fille des environs de Dieppe." A superb quintette from the most famous luxury ocean liner afloat in the 1930s. unknown
Bookseller reference : 49949
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Paris Singer
Simia
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9798215286241 ISBN : 9798215286241 9798215286
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Paris, Jay
Game of My Life Rams: Memorable Stories of Rams Football Inscribed
New York: Sports Publishing 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is inscribed by Jay Paris in pen on the half title page. The jacket has a crease down the front right side edge flap. . Sports Publishing Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 079642 ISBN : 1683581059 9781683581055
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(URBANISME, HISTORY OF PARIS) GIRARD, (PIERRE SIMON).
Quelques Objections Contre Un Changement proposé Au tracé Du Canal Saint-Martin.
1819. Paris de l'Imprimerie de Mme Ve Courcier rue du Jardinet no. 12 1819. 4pp. Unbound as issued. On 29 floréal an X 19 mai 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte 'Premier Consul' at that time passed a law to have the Canal Saint- Martin constructed together with the Canal Saint-Denis and the Canal de l'Ourcq. The project of the engineer Pierre Simon Girard 1765-1836 was chosen to resolve the problems of drinking water navigation in Paris. In 1790 he had won a price of the Academy for a work on the construction of canals and in 1798 he published the first work on the resistance of materials. By creating these canals there was the additional that a shortcut of the Seine was created. So ships could avoid the difficult center of Paris and ports could be built. Building of the canal Saint-Martin started in 1805 at both ends but the canal was only finished in 1825. Numerous difficulties related to constructing a canal in such an urban area had to be surmounted. The present document signed by Girard objects to a change that has been made in the initial project which wants to let the canal pass underneath the Hospital Saint-Louis. The author explains all his objections in detail. Important document for the history of the urbanisation of Paris. unknown
Bookseller reference : 100241
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[Paris in the 1920s].
The Left Bank Revisited: Selections from the Paris Tribune 1917-1934. Edited by Hugh Ford.
<p>University Park:: Pennsylvania State University Press 1972. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in Fine bright price-clipped dust jacket . This volume presents some of the best and most representative social and literary pieces from the Chicago Tribune European Edition. These dispatches provide first-hand documentation of the expatriate life in Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. During the seventeen years the Paris Tribune flourished the newspaper employed many famous and soon-to-be-famous writers and intellectuals like Ford Madox Ford Eugene Jolas Eliot Paul William Shirer George Seldes James Thurber Henry Miller Bravig Imbs and Harold Stearns.</p> Pennsylvania State University Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22195 ISBN : 0271011440 9780271011448
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