Paris Salons, Cafes, Studios - Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories
$250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. First Edition. Fine clean copy in a dust jacket with a couple of tiny chips and a little dust soiling at spine, a superior copy to what is usual found in this title. A “social, artistic, and literary” memoir set in Paris in the 20s with wonderful references and illustrations of Josephine Baker, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Foujita (the famous Japanese artist of Paris), Isadora Duncan, Paul Claudel, Sylvia Beach (first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Paul Verlaine, Anna Pavlova, Marcel Proust, Andre Gide, Sarah Bernhardt, and many more. Sisley Huddleston (28 May 1883 – 14 July 1952) was a British journalist and writer, who knew virtually everyone of significance in 1920s Paris., He wrote for The Times of London and the Christian Science Monitor”. According to Wikipedia: “During the Second World War, he was in Vichy France, taking French citizenship and writing in sympathy with the regime. He interviewed Marshal Philippe Pétain. He was arrested in October 1944 by French authorities on treason charges as a Vichy collaborator but was exonerated, and later compensation was paid by the French government. He wrote a number of works that were critical in particular of the Allied handling of the Liberation of France and politicians' diplomacy.”
- Publisher: Lippincott
- Year: 1928
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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