Author: Brassai
Title: Camera in Paris
Description: London, The Focal Press, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this photobook charmingly depicting the city of Paris with Brassai's pictures. A charming photobook of Paris, compiled from a series of photographs by the popular twentieth century photographer Brassai. With an introduction followed by a series of impressive photographs in black and white, with descriptions. The first edition of this work. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the extremities, a complete loss of the spine. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper, dated 1949. Internally, firmly bound. With some minor spotting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with numerous full page plates of photographs in black and white. Good . Ill.: Brassai. Good .
Keywords: photobooks first editions paris brassai first editions Brassai
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Title: Camera in Paris
Description: London, The Focal Press, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this photobook charmingly depicting the city of Paris with Brassai's pictures. A charming photobook of Paris, compiled from a series of photographs by the popular twentieth century photographer Brassai. With an introduction followed by a series of impressive photographs in black and white, with descriptions. The first edition of this work. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the extremities, a complete loss of the spine. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper, dated 1949. Internally, firmly bound. With some minor spotting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with numerous full page plates of photographs in black and white. Good . Ill.: Brassai. Good .
Keywords: photobooks first editions paris brassai first editions Brassai
Price: GBP 75.00 = appr. US$ 107.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 793A15
- Book number: 793A15
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