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Ernest Hemingway
1930, New York
 
A rare piece of Hemingway-ana.  One of 25 copies printed on January 22, 1930 to secure copyright.  A fine copy - original printed wrappers housed in collector's chemise and cloth slipcase.
 
This was 30 year old Hemingway's first such work - an introduction to Alice Prin's forthcoming English translation of her memoirs.  Alice "Kiki" Prin was the personification of Lost Generation bohemian life in 1920s Paris - Man Ray's lover and muse for years, she rolled with the likes of Ernest - what a hell of a time as seen in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
 
A note on the publisher - Edward W. Titus was the publisher and founder of the Black Manikin Press.  A Polish-born American citizen, he set up a bookshop in Paris in 1924 that became a gathering place for expatriate writers.  Titus began publishing books under the imprint Black Manikin Press in 1926, including a version of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1929.  Titus also assumed ownership and editorship of the magazine This Quarter in 1929.  Both the press and the magazine were short-lived and ended in 1932.  The press had published twenty-five books by this time.(Emory University)