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Jimmie The Barman (James Charters). This Must Be the Place: Memoirs Of Montparnasse. Herbert Joseph, 1934.

Price: US$83.33 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1934. First Edition. 300 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth. Possibly an ex-library copy with small plate and sticker to front pastedown, but no other marks. Black and white illustrations throughout by Ivan Opffer and Hilaire Hiler. Edited by Morrill Cody. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Pages have moderate foxing throughout, heavier to endpapers. Pencil inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Small sticker to front pastedown. Mild scuffing to gutter on p. 15. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to front board. Mild scuffing to joints. Book has a slight forward lean.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Charters, James ('Jimmie'); Cody, Morrill (editor); Hemingway, Ernest (introduction); Opffer, Ivan and Hiler, Hilaire (illustrators). This Must Be the Place: Memoirs of Montparnasse by Jimmie 'the Barman' Charters. Herbert Joseph Ltd, 1934.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition of this scarce memoir by the celebrated Paris bartender, with a heartfelt introduction by Ernest Hemingway (comparing saloons to literary salons). A good copy in the orignial blue cloth (spine faded, text edges foxed).

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. CHARTERS, James (Jimmie the Barman).. This Must be the Place: Memoirs of Montparnasse.. Herbert Joseph Ltd., London, 1934.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Edited by Morrill Cody. With an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. 300 pp. Illustrated by Ivan Opfer and Hilaire Hilfer. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A few spots of foxing to several leaves at beginning and end; but a nice copy in a price-clipped jacket with a few small chips, not affecting any lettering, and some light soiling and use.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Charters, James (Jimmie the Barman). Edited By Morrill Cody, Ernest Hemingway. This Must be the Place. Memoirs of Montparnasse. First Edition. 1934. Herbert Joseph, London, 1934.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: True first edition in blue cloth stamped in red, top edges stained red. Dust jacket fair only with a large chip missing from the bottom of the front panel, original price intact on front flap. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Illustrated by Ivan Opffer and Hilaire Hiler. A scarce book in any condition.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.