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Item Details
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| Author: |
Cartier-Bresson, Henri |
| Title: |
The Decisive Moment |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Èditions Verve |
| Date: |
[1952] |
| Item # : |
208409 |
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| Sale Number |
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416 |
| Lot Number |
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21 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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11/19/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 570 |
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| Description: |
| Illustrated with 126 full or double-page heliogravures of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. (Folio) 14¼x10½, pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. Booklet laid in with the captions (as issued). First American Edition. |
| One of the most important post-War photography books. The jacket and boards are after a cut-out by Henri Matisse, specially designed for this book. |
| Condition: |
| Jacket yellowed, with some light dampstains, 1" chip from head and 3½" chip from heel of spine, front panel chipped as well, with one long closed tear at upper edge; 2" chip from volume spine heel, spine head chipped a bit, worn and delicate, spine delicate; cover of booklet sunned and with some worming; else very good volume in good jacket. |
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