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New York:: Thames and Hudson,, 1987.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. In the years following the First World War, Paris was the centerpiece of art, literature, music and design. An extraordinary period of social ferment and explosive creativity is revealed in this book largely through contemporary eyes, in photographs, posters, drawings and advertisements. Douglas and Madeleine Johnson provide the framework and the extended captions for a rich documentation of a place and epoch which were perhaps most responsible for determining the artistic tone of our century. This period is revealed in this book through photographs, posters, drawings, and advertisements. Richly documented throughout by the authors. 284 illustrations.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1969.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy signed by the author. The author focuses his history of American artists in Paris on Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Man Ray, and Virgil Thomson.

Ann Arbor: :: The Olivia & Hill Press,, 1984.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with touch of wear to jacket corners. This street guide chronicles where Americans from John Paul Jones to Martin Luther King, Jr. lived, worked, played and were seen. Maps and anecdotal histories. Contains much material on the expatriate community in Paris in the 1920s. Each entry is enhanced with quotes, anecdotes and excerpts from letters. Illustrated with photos and maps.

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.

Ann Arbor:: The Olivia & Hill Press,, 1984.. First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine copy of this paperback edition with a small crease to rear corner. The author has produced a wonderful street-by-street guide to the residents and famous haunts of 240 important Americans who inhabited the City of Light from the days of Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, the expatriates in the 1920s and members of the beat era. Through letters, anecdotes, and quotes Brian Morton paints an intimate portrait of many of the visitors, along with maps and photographs.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1969.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus clipped dust jacket with two scrapes to the front panel of the jacket. The author focuses his history of American artists in Paris on Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Man Ray, and Virgil Thomson.

New 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.

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.

New York:: Norton,, 1991.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. For the five American expatriate women profiled in Wiser's superb, sparkling group portrait, Paris was a social laboratory in which to lose or remake oneself. Mary Cassatt's fertile relationship with Degas gave way to her sour last years of exile in France, when she progressively lost her eyesight. Edith Wharton, cool-headed observer of society's ironies, flung herself into a dalliance with English journalist Morton Fullerton, who at the time was engaged to his first cousin, while Wharton neglected her own clinically depressed husband. Flapper Caresse Crosby shared the opium highs and sexual excesses of her poet husband Harry, then managed their Black Sun Press after his suicide. Daredevil Zelda Fitzgerald envied famous novelist husband F. Scott, who expropriated her mental breakdown as material for his fiction. Josephine Baker, illiterate teenage chorus girl from St. Louis, came closest to… Read More

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.

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… Read More

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.

Salt Lake City:: Peregrin Smith,, 1991.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy of this paperback original. There was no hard cover edition. The eight walks in this companion volume to "Left Bank, Walks in Gertrude Stein's Paris" bring to life the artistic scene on the Right Bank from about 1850-1950--the time of Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Stein, Chanel, Cardin documenting the post World War I era of art. literature, and haute couture designers.

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.

[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… Read More

Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1998.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. The author begins this social history of American tourism in France in 1786 with Thomas Jefferson's journey toward self-improvement , through the cultural tourism of the 1800's to the devastating effects of the First World War and it aftermath resulting in the Golden Age of French expatriation known as the the Roaring Twenties.

New York:: Norton ,, 1983.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Fitch has created a literary chronicle of the most creative decades of the twentieth century as seen through the life and literary engagements of bookshop owner Sylvia Beach. In 1917, Sylvia Beach walked into a Paris bookshop, where she met Adrienne Monnier, the woman who would become her life companion. In 1919, Beach opened her own English-language bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company, which would become the cynosure of an entire literary movement. Literary expatriates were drawn to her shop, but her most celebrated literary efforts are those she made on behalf of her literary idol, James Joyce, undertaking the publication of Ulysses. Noel Riley Fitch uses Beach as the focal point for a fascinating portrait of an artistic community filled with anecdote after anecdote. From the intellectual salons at Natalie Barney's residence--of which "William Carlos Williams… Read More

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.

New 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."