MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition, Second State. Octavo, 232 pages. In Good condition. Lacking issued dust jacket. Boards are wrapped in black cloth with gold publisher's papers on the spine and front board with black lettering. Spine slightly cocked. Minor chipping to publisher's text paper pastedown on boards, including chipping to the "NGW" in Hemingway. Moderate shelving wear and soiling. Slight bumping and wear along the corners and spine head and tail edges. Textblock is splitting to front gutter and from page 180-181, has stains throughout and minor foxing. Mild wear along the edges. SH consignment. Shelved case 13.
1403221
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $600
NOTES
Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.
This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.