- Shakespeare & Company - Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Eliot, Joyce, Stein
- Three Mountains & Contact - McAlmon, Bird, Pound, Ford, Hemingway
- Black Sun - Crosby, Boyle, Joyce,
Editions Narcisse,
Crosby Continental - Black Manikin & Obelisk - Titus, Nin, Lawrence, Darantiere, Neagoe, Porter
- Other Paris Resources
During the nineteen-twenties, Paris was at the centre of literary modernism, and in the years after the Armistice nearly all the best-known young American writers spent at least some time there. The expatriate literary community revolved around the bookshops and cafes. Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Company, in particular, became a meeting-place for older and younger modernists. With this community there developed also a series of literary magazines and small publishing houses, under whose imprints appeared many of the most famous modernist works, by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
This exhibit gives brief introductions to each of the major Paris imprints of the nineteen-twenties, with illustrations of their colophons (or logos) and of representative publications. It also indicates the way in which small publishers create distinctive communities of writers, with each publisher's imprint marking a slightly different literary ethos.
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