EXPATRIATE PARIS BOOKS from Gregor Rare Books

New York:: Doubleday,, 1969.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy signed by the author. The author focuses his history of American artists in Paris on Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Man Ray, and Virgil Thomson.

New York:: Norton ,, 1983.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Fitch has created a literary chronicle of the most creative decades of the twentieth century as seen through the life and literary engagements of bookshop owner Sylvia Beach. In 1917, Sylvia Beach walked into a… Read more about this item

New York:: Norton,, 1991.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. For the five American expatriate women profiled in Wiser's superb, sparkling group portrait, Paris was a social laboratory in which to lose or remake oneself. Mary Cassatt's fertile relationship with Degas gave way to her sour last years of exile in… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, 1990.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. the In Transition magazine was first published in 1927 and quickly became the most exciting literary magazine in Paris in the 1920s, featuring the work of Gide, Joyce, Picasso, Kafka, Stein, Miro and many many others on the cutting… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, 1972.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket.. In 1925, Flanner--an American writer living in Paris--began writing her regular "Letter from Paris" to The New Yorker. The result was her own original brand of journalism that was precise, personal, colorful and descriptive covering the people, places and events unfolding… Read more about this item

New York:: Arcade Publishing,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This comprehensive volume revisits both the well-known and little known Parisian locales where the writers, artists and entertainers of the 1920s lived, worked and played. The book is broken down into 33 geographical sections and indexed by streets,… Read more about this item

Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University,, 1976.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This slim volume (102 pages) represents the first publication of Sherwood Anderson's notebook in which he documented his first trip to Paris in 1921. During this trip, Anderson met Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and… Read more about this item

New York:: Thames and Hudson,, 1987.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. In the years following the First World War, Paris was the centerpiece of art, literature, music and design. An extraordinary period of social ferment and explosive creativity is revealed in this book largely through contemporary eyes, in photographs,… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor:: The Olivia & Hill Press,, 1984.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of edge wear to the spine. This historical street guide to Paris is organized by streets in alphabetical order, indicating those Americans who have lived on that street. The list of Americans includes:… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City :: Peregrin Smith,, 1991.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus paperback copy in illustrated wraps. No hardcover edition. The author pieces together the artistic scene of the Right Bank from about 1850-1950, the times of Renoir, Matisse, Manet, Picasso, Stein, Chanel and Cardin, the post World War I era and the Paris… Read more about this item

[Paris in the 1920s] . Parisian Fields. Edited by Michael Sheringham. London:: Reaktion Books,, 1996.. First Paperback Printing. ISBN: 094846285x. A Very Good plus copy in paperback binding with a crease to a corner of the rear panel. The writers of Parisian Fields investigate how Paris has been both seen and shaped by tourist guides; how its topography has… Read more about this item

New York:: Crown,, 1975.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. The author delivers an informative overview of the artistic movement to Paris following the end of the First World War and ending with the stock market crash in 1929. Greenfield profiles all… Read more about this item

Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1998.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. The author begins this social history of American tourism in France in 1786 with Thomas Jefferson's journey toward self-improvement , through the cultural tourism of the 1800's to the devastating effects of the First World War… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor:: The Olivia & Hill Press,, 1984.. First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine copy of this paperback edition with a small crease to rear corner. The author has produced a wonderful street-by-street guide to the residents and famous haunts of 240 important Americans who inhabited the City of Light from the days of Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain,… Read more about this item

New York:: Basic Books,, 2000.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Dolly Wilde, the neice of Oscar Wilde, lived an extraordinary though creatively unproductive life in her uncle's shadow. But her literary short-comings did not prevent her from making her social mark on Paris in the 20s especially in… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, 1969.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus clipped dust jacket with two scrapes to the front panel of the jacket. The author focuses his history of American artists in Paris on Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Man… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: :: The Olivia & Hill Press,, 1984.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with touch of wear to jacket corners. This street guide chronicles where Americans from John Paul Jones to Martin Luther King, Jr. lived, worked, played and were seen. Maps and anecdotal histories. Contains much material on… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City:: Peregrin Smith,, 1991.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy of this paperback original. There was no hard cover edition. The eight walks in this companion volume to "Left Bank, Walks in Gertrude Stein's Paris" bring to life the artistic scene on the Right Bank from about 1850-1950--the time of Renoir, Manet, Picasso,… Read more about this item