Les Mémoires de Joséphine Baker.
Recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage. Avec 30 dessins inédits de Paul Colin.
Stock Code 107993
Paris, Kra, 1927
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Limited edition of Josephine Baker's memoirs, with evocative illustrations after Paul Colin. Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, working primarily in France and Europe. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
First edition, number 5 of 300 copies; square 8vo; portrait frontispiece, 28 illustrations after Paul Colin, mostly full-page, ink inscriptions to frontispiece and illustration facing p20, 4pp of Joséphine Baker ephemera and manuscript notes bound at end, short closed tear to title, light dampstaining to lower edge; rebound in full brown morocco gilt, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly marked, overall a very good copy.
First edition, number 5 of 300 copies; square 8vo; portrait frontispiece, 28 illustrations after Paul Colin, mostly full-page, ink inscriptions to frontispiece and illustration facing p20, 4pp of Joséphine Baker ephemera and manuscript notes bound at end, short closed tear to title, light dampstaining to lower edge; rebound in full brown morocco gilt, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly marked, overall a very good copy.
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