PARIS SALONS CAFES, STUDIOS: Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1928. First U.S. Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Poor. A gossipy memoir of Paris' legendary "between-the-wars" cafe society. Huddleston recollects and comments on celebrities such as Anatole France, Monet and Matisse, Rodin, Colette, Bernhardt, Hemingway, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Josephine Baker and Sherwood Anderson. Illustrated with some 50 black & white photos and drawings. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 366 pages in orange cloth-covered boards with a blue design and olive lettering. Some minor soiling; corners are slightly bumped and bottom edges and corners are worn. The text's untrimmed fore edge shows soiling. First few pages, including the frontispiece and title page, show foxing stains and text margins are lightly age-tanned, o/w book is clean and unmarked (except for a stamp-sized bookstore sticker on the inside back cover), tight and square. The dustjackets on this edition are notoriously fragile and a previous owner preserved the front panel and flap of this copy's dj by pasting the remnant to a cut-to-size sheet of heavy white stock to create a home-made dj that has worked quite well to protect the book while saving the dj's front panel design and illustration, including the original price on the flap. As the blurb on the flap notes, "a virtually complete commentary on the present "Cocktail Epoch" of Paris. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall