Boutiques Littéraires

First edition. One of 70 specially bound copies in yellow cloth, with purple cloth slipcase and original offset lithograph print, numbered and signed, loosely tipped in. Illustrated in colour throughout after Henri Guilac. Small 4to., 22.5x18.5cm, 280pp. London, Mainstone Press. 

Fine, as new.

Imagine if the literary greats of 1920s Paris were not in fact writers but shopkeepers. This is the delightful premise of Prochainement ouverture de 62 boutiques littéraires, a visual je d'esprit played by Pierre Mac orlan and Henri Guilac. Sixty-two authors from the Parisian literary scene are reimaged standing in the doorway of their own shops, each of which is named after a play on their most famous work.

  This, the final book in our Parisian triology, was originally published in 1925. For our centenary edition, Lauren Elkin discusses the genesis of the book, the life of Guilac and the hallowed place the shopfront holds in Paris, with reference to the surealists and contemporary photography. Andew Stewart provides a fascinating insight into the lives of each of the 62 writers depicted by Guilac, and Neil Philip concludes with notes on the making of the book. 

Stock Code: 251992