PARIS SALONS, CAFES, STUDIOS
by Sisley Huddleston
J.B. Lippincott Co., 1928
First Edition
Condition: Very Good
The author, who specialized in books on Paris and France in general, here shares many of his "social, artistic and literary memories" of Paris celebrities with whom he "rubbed shoulders" in the '20s. The book is gossipy and full of name-dropping. There were the French themselves -- Anatole France, Marcel Proust, Mme. Curie, Sarah Bernhardt, Monet, Picasso, etc., as well as the English and Americans who lived there for a time, such as James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Isadora Duncan. 366 pages, plus 50 photos, drawings and paintings, mostly of celebrities discussed, adding much to the enjoyment of the book. Modest cover corner and spine end wear, some exterior soiling and the front hinge is weakening a bit, though the binding is secure and there are no gutter tears. A page corner crease or two and partial page toning; writing and an erasure on the ffep.. No dust jacket. A First Edition of what is not biography or even really a memoir, but a "volume of swift portraits and of revealing anecdotes" of cosmopolitan Paris in the Roaring Twenties.