Kiki de Montparnasse. Kiki Souvenirs. Paris, Henri Broca, 1929

First edition. Preface by Foujita. Printed wrappers, with b/w illustration pasted to front, 23 x 18.5 cm, 174 pp. Profusely illustrated in b/w. One of 250 unnumbered copies. Covers and spine lightly toned and partly stained, small tears along spine, moderate dog-eared corners, regular toning around paper edges.

Memoirs of Kiki de Monteparnasse (Alice Prin) in the original French edition of 1929. As an artist, muse and model for Man Ray, Foujita, Moïse, Kisling and others, she was the embodiment of the Parisian culture of the 1920s. Features text and reproductions of Kiki's paintings and photographs, ten b/w photographs by Man Ray, and portraits by Foujita, Kisling, Hermine David, Per Krohg, Mayo and Tono Salazar. The book was published in English in 1930 with a preface by Ernest Hemingway, but was banned in the US for its explicit content until the 1970s.