Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894–1986)

Collection of 96 black-and-white photographs of women--all famous in music halls & theaters--indulging in the previously forbidden habit of smoking cigarettes in Paris in 1927. Brief biographies of each woman in rear. A fascinating slice of women's history when flappers first came into their own.

Quite a production. You can take this book as (1) ridiculously overwrought, (2) unchristian, or (3) a sideways approach to truth. So far as I can see, you could choose which you like, without harm.

English/French, outstanding early motor sport photographer 1905 - 1978.

The third book in the Zimiamvian trilogy. Left unfinished at Eddison's death, the completed portions, along with synopses of the unfinished chapters, were posthumously published in 1958. The story in this book predates Mistress of Mistresses, beginning seventy years and ending two years before the narrative of that work starts.