FIRST EDITION, pp. [vi], 373, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, top edge blue now a little faded, bookplate of Joyce collector Alexander Neubauer to front pastedown, dustjacket with sunned backstrip panel, a little chipped and nicked with some internal (and in a couple of instances external) tape-repair, very good. An important memoir from a central figure in the expatriate literary scene in Paris in the 1920s, where under his Contact Editions imprint McAlmon published his won work along with that of Hemingway, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, William Carlos Williams, Bryher, et al.; the latter was, for convenience only, married to McAlmon for much of the decade. He had also typed the Molly Bloom section at the close of 'Ulysses', working with so haphazard a manuscript that he allowed (without objection from the author) marginal insertions to fall where convenient rather than where intended - his account including that of a drunken evening alongside Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy, at the end of which he had to carry Joyce back up to his room. A scarce book. Seller Inventory # 77129

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Title: Being Geniuses Together. An Autobiography.

Publisher: Secker & Warburg

Publication Date: 1938

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