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1990Best.-Nr. 26733New York:: Arcade Publishing 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This comprehensive volume revisits both the well-known and little known Parisian locales where the writers artists and entertainers of the 1920s lived worked and played. The book is broken down into 33 geographical sections and indexed by streets individuals and topics. Arcade Publishing, unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 26293Baton 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. Louisiana State University, unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 26306New 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. Hawthorn, unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 26390Chicago :: 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. University of Chicago Press, unknown
1994Best.-Nr. 26220London :: 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. Harper Collins, unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 26004New 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. Pantheon, unknown
1989Best.-Nr. 26110New 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. Abrams, unknown
2003Best.-Nr. 26113Berkeley:: 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
2004Best.-Nr. 25973New 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. Barnes & Noble Books, unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 25976Washington 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. Counterpoint, unknown
1989Best.-Nr. 25853Chapel 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. University of North Carolina, unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 25798Ann 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. The Olivia & Hill Press, unknown
1986Best.-Nr. 25231New 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. Viking, unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 25300Lincoln :: 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 . University of Nebraska, unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 25618Lincoln :: 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 . University of Nebraska, unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 24777New 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. Crown, unknown
1999Best.-Nr. 24408Woodstock:: 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. Overlook Press, unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 24386New York::: Pantheon 1987. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with peeling to the jacket laminate. Arriving in Paris in 1924 Brassaï rapidly became a shrewd observer of nocturnal Parisian life. He sensed that photography was the tool that would allow him to document his vision of a dying society. Fascinated by the night which he found disconcerting enigmatic and suggestive Brassaï photographed its every aspect from police to prostitutes to the homeless to socialites all in a dreamlike and mysterious manner. In sixty-four images Brassaï succeeded in remarkably capturing this unique ambience. This book meticulously assembled by Brassaï himself signifies the birth of the artist. Brassaï originally from Hungary traveled to Paris in 1924 where he began to associate with the avant-garde artist community in particular with Picasso and the Parisian surrealist circles. He quickly established himself as one of the most original photographers of his generation. Pantheon,, unknown
1989Best.-Nr. 23893Santa Barbara:: Capra Press 1989. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint stain to bottom edge. Caresse was the wife of the poet and publisher Harry Crosby and together they founded their Black Sun Press in Paris in the 1920s. Their press would become famous for publishing such literary luminaries including Kay Boyle Hart Crane Archibald MacLeish Ernest Hemingway Robert Duncan Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. This copy is inscribed by the biographer to Helen Simpson Seggerman the daughter of one of Caresse's closest friends and who provided valuable information for this book. Helen Simpson was a society girl from Montclair NJ who was also very active in the Paris arts scene of the 1920s. Capra Press, unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 23592San Francisco:: North Point Press 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Review Copy with promo material laid-in. 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. North Point Press, unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 23721Santa 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. Black Sparrow Press, unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 23339Athens:: 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. Ohio University Press, unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 23342New 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. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 23343London:: 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. Unwin Hyman, unknown
2000Best.-Nr. 23379New York:: Basic Books 2000. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Dolly Wilde the neice of Oscar Wilde lived an extraordinary though creatively unproductive life in her uncle's shadow. But her literary short-comings did not prevent her from making her social mark on Paris in the 20s especially in the company of the renown lesbian salonist Natalie Barney. Dolly Wilde was a modernist gender-bender in the 1920s known for her self-detructive and magnetic personality which garnered her the title of the "beautiful loser of the Wilde family." Basic Books, unknown
