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2 BEACH, Sylvia – McALMON, Robert (ed.) Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Paris: Contact Editions, 1925 presentation copy from sylvia beach, which may have formed part of her library First edition, sole printing, one of 300 copies. This is a superb association copy, with a loosely inserted card from Sylvia Beach inscribed “For Bill, with love and best wishes for a Merry Christmas. A souvenir of our exhibition of Les Années Vingt, Sylvia”. The recipient was Morrill “Bill” Cody, an American diplomat in Paris who helped facilitate the exhibition at the US Embassy. Robert McAlmon’s magnificent collection of work by his peers contains important contributions by Djuna Barnes, Bryer, Norman Douglas, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, H.D., James Joyce, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and others. The collection has a printed dedication to Harriet Weaver. Joyce’s
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1 BARNEY, Natalie Clifford. Pensées d’une Amazone. Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1920 First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half title: “au petit groupe des artistes charmants de Vence, leur amie et leur allié, Natalie C. Barney, Vence 18 avril 1920”. The Paris-based American expatriate writer Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) was known as the “Amazon” of Paris and was one of the most influential lesbian and feminist writers of the period. Her life inspired Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness , and her Paris salon at 20 rue Jacob was for 60 years the crucible of Left Bank culture. Guests included Colette, Pierre Louÿs, Mata Hari, Auguste Rodin, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore, Nancy Cunard, Peggy Guggenheim, Caresse and Harry Crosby, Sylvia Beach, and Isadora Duncan. Barney promoted women’s writing and formed an Académie des femmes in response to the all-male Académie française, while also supporting and inspiring male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote. Octavo. Original cream wrappers, titles printed in black and red, untrimmed. Minor chips to wrappers at ends, small superficial split to wrapper affecting spine titles, some general light marking and rubbing, sound, somewhat toned but clean within, very good. £1,500 [154043]
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