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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1928. First U.S. Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Poor. A gossipy memoir of Paris' legendary "between-the-wars" cafe society. Huddleston recollects and comments on celebrities such as Anatole France, Monet and Matisse, Rodin, Colette, Bernhardt, Hemingway, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Josephine Baker and Sherwood Anderson. Illustrated with some 50 black & white photos and drawings. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 366 pages in orange cloth-covered boards with a blue design and olive lettering. Some minor soiling; corners are slightly bumped and bottom edges and corners are worn. The text's untrimmed fore edge shows soiling. First few pages, including the frontispiece and title page, show foxing stains and text margins are lightly age-tanned, o/w book is clean and unmarked (except for a stamp-sized bookstore sticker on the inside back cover), tight and square. The dustjackets on this edition are notoriously fragile and a…
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