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Synopsis
First English edition. Memoris of the Paris bookshop that was a meeting place for Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and others. Written by the proprietor. This English edition has a different dust jacket and is paginated differently than the U.S. edition. This English edition is much more scarce than the U.S. edition. Jacket is internally tape repaired. 232 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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From the Back Cover
This book evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D.H. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be.
Review
"In 1919 Sylvia Beach "opened an American bookshop in Paris called Shakespeare and Company. During the following two decades it became practically a clearing house for writers of this vital post-1918 period. When no publisher would touch her friend James Joyce's Ulysses, Miss Beach published it, in 1922, under her shop imprint. . . . Headquarters for the expatriate American writers, the shop was also a favorite stopping-off place for Gide, Valéry, and other faithful international friends and customers."—San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."—Janet Flanner, New Yorker (Janet Flanner New Yorker)
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1960
- ISBN 10 0571039014
- ISBN 13 9780571039012
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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