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Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's maroon over boards, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; 4to; pp. [4], 23 (text), [1], plus frontispiece portrait of Atget by Berenice Abbott, 96 gravure plates, and letterpress booklet (list of images) at rear. Boards lightly rubbed; small chips along joints and edges of baords; spine a bit stained, with faded lettering, backstrip (perhaps) repaired and laid back down. Internally bright and clean.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Atget, Eugene. Photographe de Paris. Préface par Pierre Mac-Orlan. E. Weyhe, New York, 1930.
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Description: First American edition, from French sheets. LACKS TITLE? Frontispiece portrait of Atget from the photograph by Bernice Abbott, and 96 collotype plates from photographs by Eugène Atget. [2], 23pp. of text (in French), and final 6pp. "Table" tipped to a folded she et and bound in at end. 1 vols. 4to. "Atget's documentary vision proved highly influential, first on the Surrealists, in the 1920s, who found his pictures of deserted streets and stairways, street life, and shop windows beguiling and richly suggestive. and then on two generations of American photographers, from Walker Evans to Lee Friedlander" (MOMA). Burgundy moire silk cloth, stamped in gilt. Boards slightly soiled, head of spine slightly frayed, slightly cocked. Lacks tipped-in American issue title leaf LACKS TITLE? Frontispiece portrait of Atget from the photograph by Bernice Abbott, and 96 collotype plates from photographs by Eugène Atget. [2], 23pp. of text (in French), and final 6pp. "Table" tipped to a folded she et and bound in at end. 1 vols. 4to First American edition, from French sheets.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1399.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atget by Berenice Abbot, 96 full-page sepia collotype plates from photographs of turn-of-the-century Paris by Atget, and 6-panel fold-out letterpress Table of Photographs. Original maroon wave-pattern silk-covered boards lettered in gilt, top edge stained saffron-yellow. Ben Shahn's copy, with estate book plate to front paste-down. Spine sunned (as usual) but titling legible, plate margins very gently toned, lacking the slipcase, else a fresh, tightly bound copy, clean throughout. Roth (101 Books), pp. 60-61 ("Atget's photographs have come to be seen by many as the beginning of modern photography"). Roth (Open Book), pp. 90-91. Parr & Badger I, p. 127 ("giving exquisite visual pleasureâ"the most striking images from more than thirty years spent documenting the streets, buildings, parks, and gardens of Old Paris.") Fotographia Publica, p. 50. Published simultaneously by Henri Jonquières, in Paris and Leipzig, on the occasion of a one-man exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery in New York; based on auction records, the New York issue seems the most desirable, although the Leipzig edition is rarest. In the early 1930s, Ben Shahn (1898-1969) shared a Greenwich Village studio with Walker Evans, from whom he learned the technical craft of photography and began splitting his time between taking photographs and paintings and drawings. Soon after, Shahn traveled extensively throughout the South and Midwest for the Farm Service Agency, documenting the plight of depression-era homesteaders and industrial workers and small town American life. In 1938, when Shahn's association with the FSA ended, so did his serious involvement with taking photographs. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Atget, Eugene (preface By Pierre Mac Orlan). Atget Photographe De Paris. E.Weyhe, New York, 1930.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96pgs. Burgundy Silk covered boards, embossed gilt lettering. frontispiece photo of Atget by Berenice Abbott. Signed by Berenice Abbott in blue ink below the frontispiece photo. 96 gravure plates. The corners of the covers are worn, , the yellow top edge is clean, with light toning to the page extremities. There is a slight spine slant. Lacks the caption booklet. An attractive, well preserved copy of this landmark book of modern photography. Size: 8 1/2" x 10 3/4"
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Atget, Eugene. Atget - Photographe de Paris. E. Weyhe, New York, 1930.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt, top edges stained yellow; in original stapled card slipcase. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth, contents toned. Slipcase is toned, lightly soiled and edge-worn with a partial split along one joint. With a frontis portrait of Atget taken by Berenice Abbott and 96 plates reproducing in collotype photographs mainly from the Abbott collection. A Roth 101 title, rare in such nice condition and in the slipcase.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.