THREE PROGRAMS FOR THE 22ND "DINER ANNUEL DE L'ASSOCIATION DE LA PRESSE ANGLO-AMERICAINE DE PARIS, 26 NOVEMBRE, 1928
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- Paris: L'Association de la Presse Anglo-Americaine de Paris, 1928
Paris: L'Association de la Presse Anglo-Americaine de Paris, 1928. Other. Three Programs, one sheet each. In Very Good condition. Illustrated on the front, with entertainment and food menu on the rear. Each program is lightly age toned, with some chipping and soiling along the right edge. Large, faint stains on the front of two of the programs near the top edge. Varying levels of soiling on the backs of the programs, with one being very lightly soiled along the edge, another with more moderate soiling, and the third showing heavier soiling and food stains. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversize. . L'Association de la Presse Anglo-Americaine de Paris (The Association of the Anglo-American Press of Paris) is a journalist's organization, founded in 1907, that held weekly lunches and annual dinners for journalists and French politicians. The programs were produced for the association's 1928 dinner, held at the Lido des Champs Elysees, an iconic Parisian theater and cabaret that had opened earlier that year.
Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.
This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403536. Special Collections.
Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.
This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403536. Special Collections.