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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company , 1929. Light foxing on a few preliminary pages. Spine lettering faking away else Very Good condition. Bookplate. Illustrated with 16 plates. A charming look at Paris of the twenties -- its streets, gates, bridges, cafes, cabarets, Montmartre, great restaurants, wines, dining out, Paris by night, Parisians past and present, roads out of Paris, fairs and circuses, Christmas in Paris, a French wedding, art of cabaret, etc. Original red cloth spine and blue paper-covered boards. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 290pp .
Paris in Profile: by Slocombe, George - 1929. A Book for the Sophisticated
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Boston and New York:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1929.. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good DJ. 290 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. "Paris is a religion, a passion, and a source of comedy for Mr. Slocombe; in its pageant he sees the exquisite small ironies, the delicate beauties, the grotesque, the fantastic, the gloomy, and always the endearingly human." Light shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp. Slight sunning & wear to dj, dampstain ring to front panel.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1929. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Boards with light shelfwear ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 290 pages .
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London: Humphrey Toulmin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Vi, (4) , 289, (1) pages + frontis + 15 plates. Orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's inscription on front endpaper. Contents: Introductory; Old Paris; Bridges, Streets, and Gates; Cafes and Cabarets; Montmartre; The Paris of the Revolution; Parisian Painters and Writers; Paris of the Gourmands; Parisians Past and Present; Roads out of Paris; Paris in Profile. ; 8vo .
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Published by Humphrey Toulmin, 1930. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Olinda, . Very good condition with no wrapper. Orange cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.
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