Pseud Kahane Jack Barr Cecil (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. G. Goursat (illustrator). 1st Edition. According to correspondence between Kahane and his literary agent J.R. Pinker [Berg collection, NYPL], Kahane had submitted the manuscript of "Suzy Falls Off" by the end of 1926. By the autumn of that year proofs had been submitted to John Long and it was published in London in 1928. This is the first American edition published the following year. Soiling rubbing to the edges, a small crack to hinge, in a facsimile dust-jacket. 5½" - 7¾". book.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. G. Goursat (illustrator). First edition. First edition August 1934. 'Cecil Barr' was the sometime pseudonym of Jack Kahane, proprietor of the Obelisk Press, whose favorite watering hole in Paris was the bar of the Cecil Hotel. This tale recounts the marital, and extra marital, adventures of Tommy Trans-Wood and his 'charming' wife. This is a very good copy in wrappers illustrated by by G. Goursat. A little spotting on the wraps, but still a remarkably fresh, fine copy. The rear flap of the wrapper advertises the publisher's list including the upcoming *Tropic of Cancer*. A beautiful copy. 5½" - 7¼". book.

8vo, pp. 282. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Small snag and faint crease to leading edge of front wrapper, 1cm closed tear to foot of spine. A very good copy. Second edition. First published by the Obelisk Press in 1934. 'Cecil Barr' was the sometime pseudonym of Jack Kahane, proprietor of the Obelisk Press, whose favourite watering hole in Paris was the bar of the Cecil Hotel. Kahane died in 1939 and Obelisk as a going concern died with him, but his son Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press would revive the imprint's name from time to time, conferring as it did a commercially useful promise of smut on books bearing its name. Upon consulting his own bibliography of the Obelisk Press (Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, LUP 2007), your cataloguer found the following entry for this book: 'Second edition. 1955. Not seen.' Given the compiling of the bibliography took four and a half years, I have no hesitation in pronouncing this book rare. Pearson A31c.