A Moveable Feast. Sketches of the Author's lIfe in Paris in the Twenties

Hemingway, Ernest

Verlag: Scribner's Sons, New York, 1964

Beschreibung

Handsomely bound in reddish linen cloth spine stamped brightly in gold; and gray paper-covered boards. Very clean and tight, virtually unread. With a splendid selection of photographs of Hemingway and his Paris circle. In a very good minus dust jacket with $4.95 price at the top of the inside front flap. Light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends. With a 1"diagonal tear at the top of the rear panel and a scratch into the portrait of Hemingway touching his head. And a clipped bottom corner of the rear inside flap. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American authorErnest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book, first published in 1964, describes the author's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife,Hadley Richardson.The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. He provides specific addresses of apartments, bars, cafes, and hotels many of which can still be found in Paris today. Among other notable persons, people featured in the book include:Sylvia Beach,Hilaire Belloc,Aleister Crowley,John Dos Passos,F. ScottandZelda Fitzgerald,Ford Madox Ford,James Joyce,Wyndham Lewis,Pascin,Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman,Gertrude Stein,Alice B. ToklasandHermann von Wedderkop.The memoir was publishedposthumouslybased on Hemingway's manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow,Mary Hemingway, in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death. An edition altered and revised by his grandson, Seán Hemingway, was published in 2009. (Wikipedia) First edition with "A-3.64[H]" present on copyright page. 1st Edition with Scribner's "A" and 1964 on the copyright page.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 820

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Moveable Feast. Sketches of the Author's lIfe in Paris in the Twenties
• Verlag: Scribner's Sons, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1964
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Memoirs