A lot of books regarding "Kiki" (Alice Prin) and the artists and writers, poets and editors of Paris, France in the 1920s-1940s: Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930; Professional Secrets: autobiography of Jean Cocteau; The Intellectual Follies: a memoir of the literary venture in New York and Paris; In Transition: writing and art from transition magazine 1972-1930; Transition 1927-38: the history of a literary era; Varlin 1900-1977; Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939

First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Author. A fine and useful lot of books designed to augment the main work, published in 1989 by Harry N. Abrams, by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, SIGNED by both authors at the first free endpaper, 1) Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in black cloth and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, embossed title at front cover top. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. A stated First Edition, and replete with many, many score black-and-white photographs and illustrations, of Hemingway and Kiki, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Appollinaire, Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Modigliani, and many others--the list goes on and on and on. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. There is a signature, too, opposite those of the two authors: "W Matisse" . . . [5], 6-263 [1] pp. The lot includes also 2) Robert Phelps, Professional Secrets: autobiography of Jean Cocteau, translated by Richard Howard from the original French of Jean Cocteau (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970), stated First Edition thus, a Near Fine condition hardcover, gift inscription at first free endpaper, Very Good dust jacket with light creasing to, wear of upper front panel edge, illustrated, with a range of black-and-white photographs and illustrations, xiii [8], 8-331 pp.; 3) Lionel Abel, The Intellectual Follies: a memoir of the literary venture in New York and Paris (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984), stated First Edition, First Printing, Fine hardcover, Very dust jacket, Brodart-protected, price-clipped, notes, bibliography and index, with [7], 8 [2], 12-304 pp.; Noel Riley Fitch, In Transition, a Paris Anthology: writing and art from transition magazine 1927-1930 (New York: Doubleday, 1990), [9], 10-256 pp., and with contributions by Samuel Beckett, Paul Bowles, Kay Boyle, Andre Gide, James Joyce, Paul Klee, Man Ray, Diego Rivera, Trsitan Tzara, Katherine Anne Porter, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and others; Dougald McMillan, Transition 1927-38: the history of a literary era (New York: George Braziller, 1976), stated First Printing, Fine in a like dust jacket, illustrated, frontis matter, 1-303 pp., complete with notes and bibliography; Claude Bernard Gallery, Varlin 1900-1977 (New York: Claude Bernard Gallery, 1986), with texts by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Peter Selz, photograph of the artist by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 56 pp., previous owner inscription on rear panel; Hugh Ford, Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 (New York: Macmillan, 1975), stated First Printing, Near Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good dust jacket, slightly sunned, price-clipped, xvii [2], 3-453 pp., and complete with notes, bibliography and index. Special focus on the works of D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Kay Boyle, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Ezra Pound, H.D., Gertrude Stein and many others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.