Shakespeare And Company Beach, Sylvia

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 39 black and white photographs and 5 line illustrations. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with the stamp of Peter Weiss (a writer, painter and filmmaker) and Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss (an award-winning costume designer) to the last page, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears, a longer closed tear to the foot of the spine, a small chip at the top of the rear panel and slight fading to the spine. Not price-clipped (25s net to the front flap). Sylvia Beach's memoir of the iconic Parisian bookshop. This first UK edition was preceded by a 1959 American edition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.