the
handsack press digital (pdf) issue of
Memoirs
of a Booklegger
$3.99
MEMOIRS OF A BOOKLEGGER by Jack
Kahane (ISBN 978-0-615-18564-4).
with a Foreword by Juliette
Kahane
This is a digital copy (pdf format) of JACK KAHANE's (founder
of the OBELISK PRESS in PARIS) autobiography, MEMOIRS OF A BOOKLEGGER.
MEMOIRS OF A BOOKLEGGER was originally published in a limited quantity in
1939. Copies are rare, and if found, are very expensive. This is the digital version of the 3rd
handsack press printing of 2006 which was the first to contain an Introductory
Foreword written by Jack Kahane’s granddaughter, Juliette Kahane. MEMOIRS OF A BOOKLEGGER recounts the life of
the colorful and eccentric man who started the OBELISK PRESS in Paris in 1931
and gave the works of HENRY MILLER to the world. From his insecure boyhood days
in Manchester, England to his successful years in the Manchester textile
industry; from his enlistment in the British Army to his being seriously
wounded in the trenches of France; from his early days as an expatriate
novelist in 1920’s Paris to his becoming a confidante, publisher, and friend to
some of the best literary minds of all time; Kahane tells his story with a mix
of drama, comedy, cynicism, and tenderness. His many and varied opinions of
women, sex, war, writers, publishers, Germans, French, Italians, Americans, and
English are often times insightful and many times infuriating. JACK KAHANE died
on September 3, 1939, just months after MEMOIRS OF A BOOKLEGGER was published
and two days after the beginning of World War II. One cannot begin to quantify
the value of the literary legacy that he left behind. Enough to say that if one
knows the name of JACK KAHANE, if one recognizes the elegant colophon of the
OBELISK PRESS, if one has felt the energy in the words of writers such as HENRY
MILLER, JAMES JOYCE, ANAIS NIN, LAWRENCE DURRELL, and D. H. LAWRENCE, then one
knows the importance of JACK KAHANE and the reasons for needing to read MEMOIRS
OF A BOOKLEGGER.
Please note that this is a 1.7 Megabyte pdf file. Please make sure that your email application
and ISP connection can accept a file of this size.
Please note that this pdf file cannot be printed or cut and
pasted. It is searchable which makes it
a terrific reference book. Adobe Reader
5.0 or later is required to read.
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