Les Montparnos, roman nouveau de la boheme cosmopolite de Georges-Michel, Michel

5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Famous tale of Modigliani by writer who herein created myths about the Parisian avant garde of the early 1920s. Bookplate of William Wallace Irwin who wrote about and lived in Montparnasse while it was replacing Montmartre for bohemian artists. Cover gouache drawing by Picasso (Three Musicians, odd variant not often seen), one of his earliest covers, Irwin has tipped in photo of the artist, loose news article on his tragedy by B. J. Kospoth loosely inserted from a Parisian paper (nd). One of the earliest biographies (loose) of Modigliani. Quarter leather red spine with six compartments, gilt title, abrasion at bottom of spine, bound in. Rare.