Les Anneés Vingt: Les Écrivains Américains a Paris et Leurs Amis, 1920-1930.
Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, 1959. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 142pp. Illustrations. Very good. Item #51690
Attractive and tight first edition of this catalogue for a Parisian exhibition on the American expat writing community. Howard C. Rice writes in "The Papers of Sylvia Beach" (Princeton Alumni Weekly, 16 February 1965 issue): "In 1959 Miss Beach had a major share in the organization of the exhibition, 'Les Années Vingt, Les Ecrivains Americains a Paris et leurs amis, 1920-1930,' held at the Centre Culturel Americain in Paris, under United States Embassy auspices. The display was based to a large extent on Miss Beach’s collection, as was the revised version of the same exhibition held at the USIS gallery in London the following year under the title, 'Paris of the Twenties: An Exhibition of Souvenirs of British, French and American Writers, from Shakespeare and Company.' The notable printed catalogue of the Paris exhibition, to which Miss Beach contributed an introduction, lists many of the items now in the Princeton Library."
Price: $150.00