Les Memoires de Josephine Baker
Paris: Kra, (1927). Colin, Paul. Edition Originale. Hardcover. 30 illustrations (mostly full-page, all black & white except the frontis, and all by Paul Colin), 186, [1]p. Rebound in modern, grained oatmeal-colored cloth. Leather title label mounted on backstrip. Original wrapper not preserved. 19 cm. Mostly modest foxing on some outer leaves. Copy No. 63 of 300 numbered copies "sur pur fil lafuma constituant l'edition originale." French text. Signed and dated by Baker ("Souvenir de Josephine Baker 1941") on a blank leaf -- probably not part of the original book -- which is bound in before the half-title. Inked in upper right corner on back of that leaf in an unknown hand" "Alger le 3 j...? -- looks like "Juil" to us -- Kebel(?) Aletti." Collected and adapted by Marcel Sauvage. Her first autobiography. Online information has Baker, in spy mode, at the Aletti in Algiers in January 1941 before going to Morocco. Baker was taken from her home in Marrakesh in June, 1941, to a hospital in Casablanca where she took about 18 months to recover. All in all, intriguing, and also puzzling. Very Good. Item #87786
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