Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios. Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher's tangerine cloth, spine and upper board decoratively stamped in gray and olive.
First US edition of English writer and Francophile Sidney Huddleston’s musings on interwar Paris. While stationed in the city during WWI, Huddleston fell in love with French culture. Befriending fellow expats he began to write about French history, culture, and politics, notably frequenting English language bookstore Shakespeare and Co. to the point he became known as "Mr. Shakespeare." A firsthand account of Parisian café culture in the 1920s, this survey comprises Huddleston’s observations on various literary, artistic, and intellectual icons (Josephine Baker, Ford Madox Ford, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Paul Morand, Jules Morand, Colette, and Sylvia Beach among others), bars, salons, restaurants, books, neighborhoods, and more. Illustrated with black-and-white photos, drawings, and reproductions. Bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. Lacking scarce fragile dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine-ends, some soiling to cloth, light foxing to preliminary leaves. Very good. Item #12951
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