22 x 16.5cm. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. First edition of this series of 15 poetic-portraits based on well known personalities from the salon La Maison des Amis des Livres: characters which included Jules Romains, Fargue, Paul Valery, Gide, Francis Jammes, Larbaud, James Joyce, Durtain, Claudel, Jacques Benoist-Mechin, Sylvia Beach and Marie Monnier.

This copy is one of only 15 numbered copies (the du tete) on fil Lafuma aside from 3 deluxe copies on Hollande, 300 ordinaire copies on verge and 39 copies hors commerce (total edition). Additionally this copy is dedicated by Monnier at the half-title to Jacqueline Fontaine "en signe de grande amitie" and dated "Avril 1923". Very slight browning to the wrappers and internal edges but otherwise very good. Rare.

14 x 22cm. 226pp. Printed wrappers. A special double number of this literary review. Content of an appreciation of the essential bookseller/publisher of the Parisian expatriate scene of the 1920s-30s.

Collected contributions by Sherwood Anderson, Bryher, Malcolm Cowley, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Janet Flanner, Andre Gide, Ernest Hemmingway, Maria Jolas, James Joyce, Valery Larbaud, Robert McAlmon, Adrienne Monnier, Catherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Richardson, Maurice Saillet, Gertrude Stein, Max Weber, William Carlos Williams, et. al. A very good example of this excellent resource.