"The Education Of A French Model: Kiki's Memoirs" 1955 (SOLD)

"The Education Of A French Model: Kiki's Memoirs" 1955 (SOLD)Introduction by Ernest HemingwayKiki (a. k. a. Alice Prin) Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the so called Annes folles ("crazy years" in French). She became one of the most famous models of the 20th century and

Introduction by Ernest Hemingway

Kiki (a.k.a. Alice Prin)

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in French). She became one of the most famous models of the 20th century and in the history of avant-garde art.

[160] pp.

Bridgehead Books/

Seven Sirens Press, Inc.

1955

Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine

8 1/4" x 5 1/8"

VG/ VG

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With 16 pages of black & white photos of nudes "Kiki's Friends".

Translated by Samuel Putnam.

Ernest Heminway wrote the 4 page intro: "This is the only book I have ever written an introduction for and, God help me, the only one I ever will."

Two of this memoir's chapters are entitled "Papa Hemingway Receives -And Gives" & "Papa Hemingway Strikes Back".