On the Left Bank, 1929-1933 Tapa dura - 1987

Ohio University Press, 01/02/1987 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 2.0305 in x 23.8579 in x 15.9898 in.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xxvii, 159 p. 25 cm. B&w plates. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR NAMES. Edited by Benjamin Franklin V.

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… Leer más

Ohio Univ Pr. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!