Kiki by Alice Prin (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. First Printing. First reprint of the original first English language edition of 1930 (which had appeared in French the previous year), published by the Black Manikin Press (and banned in the U .S.). A Near Fine copy in textured yellow paper covered boards, in a Good dustwrapper, with chipping to upper edges and points. Bump to top corner of front board. 186pp. with publisher's ads at end. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. A tame book by contemporary standards. Q18240.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Hbk, 181pp+ index and advertisements, illustr b+w drawings, photos, art reproductions, title page reads 'The Education of French Model: The Loves, Cares, Cartoons and Caricatures of Alice Prin, originally 'Souvenires Kiki' in French and Kiki's Memoirs in English,' [1929 and 1930], dj edgeworn top and tail of spine with a very small closed tear top rear panel, but not price-clipped and otherwise fine, clean and now in protective sleeve, fine yellow cloth with black titles and ornament, internally appears unread and an excellent clean tight unmarked copy, becoming harder to find.

Condition: G+. 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.

First 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.

Neuere Priv.-Brosch. m. aufgezogenen Deckeln der Orig.-Broschur, montiertes Deckelbild. 4°, 174 S. mit 46 Tafeln. Einband erneuert, Deckel tlw. fleckig, Schmutztitel fleckig, Ecken etw. knittrig, etw. unfrisch. EA. Exemplar der Normalausgabe. Enthält das Vorwort von Foujita: «Mon amie Kiki», sodann «Kiki peintre», «Vingt tableaux» und die «Souvenirs» (S. 69 ff.). Mit 10 Porträtfotografien von Man Ray.