Kiki's  Memoirs

by Alice Prin

introduction by Ernest Hemingway

translated from the French by Samuel Putnam 

First edition.  Paris:  Black Manikin Press, 1930  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Cream wraps are mostly clean, with illustration and titles in black and red ink. 
• Wraps show some bumping to all opening edges, a dent to back cover at spine head.  Corners are nicked and softened.  See photos. 
• Spine is bright with a little wear to ends. 
• Binding is unopened. 
• Original red wraparound band is unbroken and in place.  See photos.
• Slipcase of heavy cardstock shows smudges, wear, some cocking.  See photos.
• PS2024.0710

186 pages. 7 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches

A very good copy of this first edition, with its original red wraparound band intact, and publisher's white card slipcase.  Wraps show some bumping commensurate with age and a tight fit in the slipcase.  Publisher's note.  "A Note on Kiki, St. Theresa and the Vulgate" by the translator.  20 full-page black and white reproductions of paintings by the author; 4 black-and-white photographs of the author by Man Ray; 1 black-and-white photograph (of her grannie) by the author; other black-and-white photographs; full-page black-and-white portraits of the author by Foujita, Kisling, Per Krohg, Hermine David, Mayo and Tono Salazar.  Contains chapters on Man Ray, Kisling and Foujita.  

Kiki's Memoirs is a 1929 autobiography by Alice Prin (1901–1953), known as Kiki de Montparnasse , who was a model, artist, and actress working in Montparnasse, Paris in the first half of the twentieth century.  Translated into English for this edition published by Black Manikin Press, her memoirs are a lively account of the bohemian lifestyle typical among the artists in Paris during the 1920s.

One of twenty-five titles published by the Black Manikin press founded by American expat Edward W. Titus, which operated in Paris from 1926-1932.  1000 copies were printed by Darantière, Dijon.

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