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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest]. KIKI (real name Alice Prin). Kiki's Memoirs. Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Paris: Edward W. Titus At the Sign Of The Black Manikin Press, 1930. Small 4o. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings by Kiki and portraits of her by Man Ray, Foujita, et al. Original printed wrappers, pictorial label on front cover (tiny tear at top edge of front cover).
FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies. PRESENTATION COPY FROM KIKI, inscribed by her WITH A SIGNED SELF-PORTRAIT (head in profile) all in blue ink on the half-title: "Pour Monsieur, en Sympathie de Kiki 1930" (with the self-portrait, 50 x 40 mm, below). Kiki was a famous artist's model and the "Queen" of Montparnasse. Hemingway's introduction was his first for any book. Hanneman B7.
FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies. PRESENTATION COPY FROM KIKI, inscribed by her WITH A SIGNED SELF-PORTRAIT (head in profile) all in blue ink on the half-title: "Pour Monsieur, en Sympathie de Kiki 1930" (with the self-portrait, 50 x 40 mm, below). Kiki was a famous artist's model and the "Queen" of Montparnasse. Hemingway's introduction was his first for any book. Hanneman B7.