Excerpt from Chapter I: "The street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione, which cut it evenly in two. It was to them only the shortest distance between two points, for the sidewalks of this street were not sprinkled with damp sawdust and set out with marble-topped tables under red awnings, nor were there the mirrors and windows of jewellers and ...
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Excerpt from Chapter I: "The street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione, which cut it evenly in two. It was to them only the shortest distance between two points, for the sidewalks of this street were not sprinkled with damp sawdust and set out with marble-topped tables under red awnings, nor were there the mirrors and windows of jewellers and milliners along its course to make one turn and look. It was interesting only to those people who lived upon it, and to us perhaps only for that reason. If you judged it by the circumstance that we all spent our time in hanging out of the windows, and that the concierge of each house stood continually at the front door, you would suppose it to be a most interesting thoroughfare, in which things were always happening. What did happen was not interesting to the outsider, and you had to live in it some time before you could appreciate the true value of the street. With one exception. This was the great distinction of our street, and one of which we were very proud. A poet had lived in his way, and loved in his way, in one of the houses, and had died there. You could read the simple, unromantic record of this in big black letters on a tablet placed evenly between the two windows of the entresol. It gave a distinguished air to that house, and rendered it different from all of the others, as a Legion of Honor on the breast of a French soldier makes him conspicuous amongst his fellows."
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Very Good. No DJ. No DJ. Edge and spine wear. Pages slightly ivoried. Front hinge weak. Notation about probable original source of book on second end paper at front.
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Very good. No dust jacket. 219 p. : ill.; 19 cm. Includes Illustrations. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. The streets of Paris. --The show-places of Paris--night. --Paris in mourning. --The grand prix and other prizes. --Americans in Paris.
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Gibson, Charles Dana. Very Good. Issued Without Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Twenty-nine black and white illustrations, complete along with tissue guard for frontis piece. Blue cloth Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. This is an informational book on French culture. Chapters included the following: "The Streets of Paris, " "The Show-Places of Paris--Night, " "Paris in Mourning" (which addresses the assassination of President Carnot), "The Grand Prix and Other Prizes, " and "Americans in Paris." Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a writer and journalist who became well-known for being the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, and World War I. Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) was an American graphic artist best-known for his creation of the "Gibson girl, " an iconic representation of the independent woman at the turn of the twentieth century.
