Description

Hardcover, large quarto bound in black cloth boldly lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. Not paginated (approximately 200 pages). Translated from the French by Richard Miller. illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Second printing (of the first American edition). “One of the most evocative photographic memoirs ever published. It was known that Brassai had taken a series of ‘secret photographs’ which could not be published because of their daring nature — the forbidden Paris, a sordid bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld.” [WorldCat]. No previous ownership marks. Small red remainder stamp on top edge of bulked sheets. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.