Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

Noel Riley Fitch. First U.S. edition (stated), first printing. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1983. Both unclipped dust jacket, in a mylar protective wrapper, and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. The dust jacket was designed by Rus Anderson. No writing or markings in the book, 447 pp. "Fitch has created a literary chronicle of the most creative decades of the twentieth century as seen through the life and literary engagements of bookshop owner Sylvia Beach. In 1917, Sylvia Beach walked into a Paris bookshop, where she met Adrienne Monnier, the woman who would become her life companion. In 1919, Beach opened her own English-language bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company, which would become the cynosure of an entire literary movement. Literary expatriates were drawn to her shop, like Ernest Hemingway, but her most celebrated literary efforts are those she made on behalf of her literary idol, James Joyce, undertaking the publication of Ulysses. Noel Riley Fitch us