SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY

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.