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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 558 pages. Bibliographical References and Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The narrative history of the American ex patriots in Paris from the 1830’s until the turn of the century. Luminaries and artists such as James Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James sojourned in the City of Light; all made the perilous ocean crossing to revel in the city that was the center of culture and sophistication. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket has a small retail price-sticker on front panel, else a clean, tight, unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket.