The Other Paris
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 305pp. 8.22 x 1 x 9.62 inches. Paper over boards, stamped spine. Book is a stated first edition with a number line ending with 1. Book is unread, unclipped, unmarked, tight, bright, and the jacket has an archival protector. Very minor shelf wear. Gift quality. Fine / fine. Item #0004485
ISBN: 9780374299323
From the jacket flap blurb: "Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself, and, by extension, throughout the world.Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses-from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps-Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris, through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians, through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city."
Price: $70.00