Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.) Kiki of Montparnasse. Kiki's Memoirs. Introduction by Hemingway. Illustrated by Man Ray, Foujita, and others. 4to, printed wrappers, small chip to foot of spine; original glassine wrapper, loss, original wrap-around band, some professional repairs to tissue. Paris: Black Manikin Press, 1930

Additional Details

One of 1000 copies of the First Edition. The book was barred from entry by the U. S. Customs on the ground of obscenity. Hemingway's introduction was issued in pamphlet form on January 22, 1930 in an edition of 25 copies to secure copyright. Hanneman B7; Cohn 38. with--The Education of a French Model. Translated by Samuel Putnam. 8vo, cloth; dust jacket by Mahlon Blaine. The unexpurgated edition, with illustrations by Blaine and a section of photographic plates of nudes entitled "A Few of Kiki's Beautiful Friends" included. NY, 1954.