Prin Alice (9 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Visible Voice Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Acceptable. Boar's Head Books New York 1950 water damage to bottom of both boards. hinge cracked at front board. binding shaken.
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Published by Boar's Head Books, New York, 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.Second Edition Books
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£ 90.57
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good --. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. Tight binding, clean interior. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway.Yellow-green boards with bright blue text; light wear and bumping to corners and spine ends, faintest of fading/discoloration to edges. DJ preserved in mylar, mild chipping and soiling, missing piece… and tears to lower spine. Interior iunmarked. "The loves, cares, cartoons and caricatures of Alice Prin" 186 pp.
Published by Boar's Head Books, New York, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 113.21
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Very Good. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover in yellow cloth, the book has a mild lean to the binding, moderate bumps to the spine ends and corners with some creasing to the corners of the pages, and slight dulling with some shelf wear to the edges. Overall, this is a solid,…bright, Very Good copy in a Near Very Good dust jacket, which has creasing, short tears and small chips to the spine ends and corners, some wear to the edges with a thumb-size chip to the head of the back, rubbing with smudging to the covers, and light sunning to the spine and edges.
More imagesPublished by Henri Broca, Paris, 1929
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: G+. First Edition. Uncommon. An unnumbered example of what is stated as an edition of 250 copies. Wrappers, 174 pages, 46 plates including photos of Kiki by Man Ray. Possible handwritten brown ink spine titling. Condition is Good+ only: while interior shows only occasional spotting and stitched binding is still sound…with no loose pages, the covers are heavily foxed, spine has 4" closed tear and a few pieces missing and corners are a tad soft. All plates unmarred. Glued cover plate in good shape but for tiny piece missing bottom right. See images.
Published by Boar's Head Books, New York, 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerWith an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. 181pp. plus ads. Illustrated 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Small bookplate tipped onto pastedown; otherwise fine in a jacket with a closed tear and some light creasing. Originally Souvenirs Kiki in French and Kiki's Memoirs in English.
More imagesPublished by Boar's Head Books., New York., 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Beaux Books, ABA, ILAB, Hartley Wintney, HAMPS, United KingdomBeaux Books, ABA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 189.00
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boar's Head Books. New York. 1950. Second edition. First published in French in 1929 and in English in 1930. Hardback, large octavo; orange cloth-bound boards with blue title to spine and drawing to front board, dust jacket. 192 pages. Many b&w photographs and illustrations by K…iki, Man Ray and others. English. 235x160mm. 0.45kg. Very good, in good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, some toning and spotting, slight ruffling to spine ends, small tear to top edge of front panel, larger tear along front fold of jacket, also affecting fore-edge of front board; slight spotting to top edge and endpapers. The memoirs of Kiki de Montparnasse, this being the 1950 edition published by Samuel Roth as Boar's Head Books. Alice Prin, better known as "Kiki", was a bohemian creative, an embodiment of the Parisian culture of the 1920s. She was an artist in her own right, but also a muse and model for Man Ray, Foujita, Moise Kisling and many other artists. The memoirs cover her childhood, her early years, and her life in artistic Montparnasse. The text is accompanied by an introduction by Ernest Hemingway and photographs and illustrations by Kiki, Man Ray, etc. The memoirs were first published in 1929 in French. The English translation, with the Hemingway introduction, was published in 1930 and promptly banned for its explicit content. Samuel Roth took advantage of the fact that copyright laws did not apply to banned books and published this new sensationalist 1950 edition of the memoirs. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. 1950. Second edition. First published in French in 1929 and in English in 1930.
More imagesPublished by Bridgehead Books, New York, 1954
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United KingdomClearwater Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 200.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first unexpurgated US edition of the author's memoirs, originally published in France in 1928 as 'Les Souvenirs de Kiki', with the English-language translation appearing two years later, but somewhat censored for the US market. 8vo. 160pp. Black…cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With various line drawings, and fifteen black and white nude photographs ("A few of Kiki's beautiful friends"). A tiny bump to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with just a hint of edgewear. A binding error finds pp. 65-80 repeated either side of the nude plates (my guess is that somebody's attention was diverted), and several chapters omitted as a result. Uncommon.
Published by Paris Edite Par Henri Broca 1929, 1929
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Text in French. Signed and inscribed the author at the half-title in French: Òa Francis Dickie bon ami, en souvenir de notre vieux Montparnasse. Sympathie de Kiki, Juin 1931Ó. [to Francis Dickie good friend, in memory of our old Montparnasse. Sympathy of Kiki, June 1931] Below her inscription Kiki has drawn a nude… self-portrait in which she is up to her waist in water with a small drawing of a sailor in the foreground and a sailboat in the background with birds flying overhead. She has signed her drawing ÒKiKiÓ. One of 250 unnumbered copies. Text in French. Original tan wrappers with dark green tape to the spine with a small black & white reproduction of a painting of Kiki by Moise Kisling to the front cover. Illustrated with photographs and paintings by Man Ray, Kisling, Tsuguharu Foujita, Per Krohg, Hermine David, etc. and paintings by Kiki. A lightly toned copy with some aging, edge wear, and faint spotting to the edges of the first few pages. This is the memoir of Alice Prin (1901 - 1953), better known as Kiki of Montparnasse, a French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in, and helped define the liberated culture of Paris during the so-called Annees folles [crazy years]. She became one of the most famous models of the 20th century and in the history of avant-garde art. In 1921 she met the American visual artist Man Ray, with whom she had a stormy eight-year relationship, during which time she became his muse as well as the subject of some of his best known images, including the surrealist image Le Violon dÕIngress and Noire et blanche [Black and White]. A painter in her own right, Kiki had a sold-out exhibition of her paintings in 1927 at the Galerie au Sacre Printemps in Paris. Long after her death, she remains the embodiment of the outspokenness, audacity, and creativity that marked the interwar period of life in Montparnasse. Very scarce.
Published by Black Manikin Press, Paris, 1930
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.Gregor Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in cream colored paper wraps in protective mylar jacket. First English Translation. Kiki was one of the most colorful and well known inhabitants in Paris in the 1920s; she worked as an artist's model, impromptu cafe performer and lover to Man Ray and other artists. Kiki's mem…oirs are a lively account of the bohemian lifestyle typical among the artists in Paris during the 1920s, with an introduction provided by Ernest Hemingway. She tells of her encounters with Man Ray, Tsuguharu Foujita, Moïse Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Kees van Dongen, Chaïm Soutine, and others. The memoirs were first published in English in 1930, but due to their sometimes explicit content, were banned in the United States until the 1970s.This is an increasingly difficult memoir from the expatriate Paris crowd. Only 1000 copies of this edition printed.
