Nina Hamnett. 
 
Ray Long & Richard R. Smith: 1932. Hardcover in a jacket. First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Spine slightly leaned. Some discoloration to the end papers. Top edges of the boards bumped. Price-clipped jacket is rubbed and torn. 326 pages. Book is very good, jacket is fair. 
 
An autobiography of a young artist's life in Paris at a time of high modernism, when bohemians were shunned and feared by propriety. Artists and writers of fame abound in all the rooms and halls of her memories. Hamnet greets every moment of gossipy detail ready to be thrilled at whoever she'll met and whatever will happen next.  
 
"A lady was the last thing I wanted to be."