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Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in black cloth lettered in light blue on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped, glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 320 pages. Preface by Jean-Jacques Aillagon. Text essays excerpted from the work of Brassai himself as well as contributions from his wife Mme. Gilberte Brassi and close friends Roger Grenier, Henry Miller, Jacques Prevert and Werner Spies. End-matter includes Biography, Bibliography, Exhibitions and List of Illustrations. Illustrated with 308 photographs, 14 of which are in color. Stated first American edition. A presentation of Brassi’s art from his nude drawings and sculpture to his fascination with graffiti but principally featuring on his photographs of nocturnal Paris and the demimonde creatures which inhabited its streets. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage to be charges at actual cost.