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Henri Cartier-Bresson. Decisive Moment. Simon and Schuster, 1952.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: July 1952. Stamped In France. Fragile condition. Heavy general wear, soil, toning, staining to boards. Wear to all edges that may include dings, tearing, chips to board. Heavy wear, tearing, loss to spine and exterior hinges. Heavy edge wear and loss to spine extremities and joints. Front and rear boards are still attached. Sewn binding relaxed but holding. Corners bumped, worn, board exposure. Soil/smudging to endpapers. Toning to pages. Foxing to top text block edge. No DJ. Please ask to see photos if interested. Due to size and weight of book international orders cannot be accepted.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri.. THE DECISIVE MOMENT.. Simon and Schuster/Editions Verve, 1952.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The July 1952 printing. "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson." GOOD HARDCOVER, POOR DUST JACKET. Defects noted: sewn binding is loose, but still intact. Photographs and text are fine. Spine edges and lower corners of the book are worn, also the spine is cracked at the gutters of the spine, Dust jacket is in poor condition, the majority of the spine is missing, worn and has tears. The Caption Booklet is not present. Again internally a nice clean copy of this important book. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, 1952.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: tall case. First edition. Includes the captions booklet. No jacket. Covers edgeworn, with bits missing from spine.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Unpaginated. Pictorial boards by Matisse. Full page photos in gravure. Captions booklet is laid in. Pictorial jacket by Matisse, previously repaired and presented in mylar. The spine and front and back panels are joined by tape up and down spine, which has been replaced with brown paper - no titles on jacket spine. Rear flyleaf detached, front flyleaf previously reattached. Numerous chips along edges of jacket on front and back, but front panel is intact aside from chips. Pictorial paper boards, mirroring jacket. Spine ends worn, but binding is tight with only minor rubbing to corners. Book shows toning to page ends, but pages themselves are clean and unmarked. The seminal collection of his now most well-known and often reproduced photographs which also includes his essay concerning his thoughts and ideas on photography and his "decisive moment" philosophy. Roth 101 Size: Folio
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The decisive moment;. Simon and Schuster, 1952.
Price: US$723.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1952 Simon and Schuster in jacket with caption booklet. Jacket is missing lower 2" and middle 3" of spine, is torn at upper right corner and has small chip rear panel top of spine. Backstrip is intact and small tear base front gutter. Ownership ink to flyleaf otherwise unmarked. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated with 126 large b/w plates, handsomely printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse (sold as-is: the boards are lightly dust soiled and darkened at edges; the spine is considerably darkened and repaired, with a chip on the letter "D"; interior is clean). New York: Simon and Schuster/Verve, (1952). Original pamphlet is laid-in. There is a penciled gift inscription to illustrator Hilary Knight. A good copy of this important and notoriously delicate book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Original Matisse designed boards, light wear at spine ends, bottom edge slightly bumped, jacket a little grubby with significant loss at both spine ends, browning at edges, but otherwise intact. An attractive copy of a notoriously fragile book. Printed in France by Draeger for Simon & Schuster. This is the first US edition. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; Inventory No: 048262.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by Draeger Freres, Paris. " The Decisive Moment" Captions laid-in. Considered the father of modern photojournalism, he used a 35 mm Leica camera, composing in the view finder, and what he saw you got -- no cropping or dark room manipulation. Clean, fresh copy, some cellotape repairs to spine. Orig. pictorial boards. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. THE DECISIVE MOMENT. Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952.
Price: US$966.62 + shipping
Description: THE DECISIVE MOMENT, Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952, first edition, some bumping, short closed tears to the bit tanned spine extremities, light wear to the fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg/vg+ copy with near fine contents with the original caption booklet laid in as issued in a good Matisse dust-wrapper repeating the design of the covers with some chipping and tears and soiling. Most certainly a cornerstone book in the building of a 20th century photography library. Profusely illustrated with photographs of course.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. THE DECISIVE MOMENT. Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952.
Price: US$993.10 + shipping
Description: THE DECISIVE MOMENT, Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952, first edition, bottom 1/2 inch of spine chipped, 1/4 inch closed tear to the bottom of the front board, light wear and tear to the head of the spine, text block a bit loose, 2 small faint tape stains to each of the paste-downs, else a bright vg copy with the original caption booklet laid in as issued in a good to very good Matisse dust-wrapper repeating the design of the covers with some chipping to the base of the spine and other light wear and tear and soiling. Most certainly a cornerstone book in the building of a 20th century photography library.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound folio edition (14.5" x 10.5") in white boards with designs by Henri Matisse on the front and rear boards which have lightly scattered foxing to their top edges. The spine is darkened and lightly foxed, especially along the front gutter. The top of the spine is bumped with a small chip at the top right-hand corner. With small chips at the top inside corners of the last two pages. Note: The Special Captions booklet is present; the dustjacket is not "This book with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The French Edition by Verve (Images a la Sauvette) and the American Edition by Simon and Schuster (The Decisive Moment), were conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The Engravings and Printings is the work of the master Printers Draeger Freres of Paris. It was completed the 22nd of July, 1952." A remarkable and landmark book in the development of modern photography. First Edition with "July 1952" at the bottom of the copyright page
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: 10 ¾ in. x 14 ½ in. Laid-in is a booklet listing the captions of the photos. Design printed paper over boards. The colophon: "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson The French edition by Verve .and the American edition by Simon Schuster (The Decisive Moment) were conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The engraving and the printing are the work of the Master printers Draeger Freres of Paris." Gift inscription in ink on front free end-paper: "Margaret H. Sherwin, Willoughby Ohio. From Peter and Brian, December 25th, 1952." Some of the paper surface of this sheet shows abrasion from the removal of cellophane tape. The upper and lower ends of the spine show chipping away of the paper and cardboard, ¼ inch to the top, ½ inch to the bottom. A damp-stain shows on the upper edge, and this has affected some pages at the front and at the back of the book. There is some spotting to the fore-edge. Spots on the rear panel. Weight is 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. The scan shows the back cover.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (16)pp., 126 plates, 63 plates, (4)pp., 64-126 plates, (12)pp. 12pp. brochure with captions laid in. Original Illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on covers and spine, in original dustjacket with same motif and lettering, protected by modern mylar. Color drawing on cover and dustjacket designed for this publication by Matisse. This volume contains a large sampling of Cartier-Bresson's best b/w photographs. Includes a text by the photographer about his philosophy of photography and art as well as a section on the technical aspects of photography. "Henri Cartier-Bresson carries his Leica camera with him at all times. He wanders through life looking for decisive moments - historical ones, emotional ones, beautiful ones. When the decisive moment arrives, he immediately composes the picture in the viewfinder of his camera and snaps the shutter. The results are some of the most memorable pictures of our time." (Simon & Schuster). Dustjacket somewhat sunned along edges and some light wear along edges. Quarter inch chip at top of sine, else light chipping. Boards with very light wear along edges and lightly age-toned. Some light smudging in margins of some of the plates. Block lightly age-toned, not affecting plates.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1220.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in Good DJ: The Book shows indications of careful use: moderate shelving wear to the lower extremities, wit scant exposure of the underlying board at the heel of the backstrip and lower corner tips; faint coffee stains at the bottom edge of the text block (these penetrate about a quarter inch at the bottom edge of the front free endpaper and along the bottom edge of the front panel) and the bottom of the fore-edge; a small, peculiar stain at the top edge of the text block (perhaps caused by an insect); a couple of thin lines of oily residue at the outside edge of the front and rear free endpapers; the binding remains square and quite secure; the text clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear and numerous minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. The DJ shows fairly heavy wear: a couple of short tears at the bottom of the rear panel with some creases and some creasing at the top of same and also at the inside front flap; a small snag and a short tear at the top of the front panel; some loss to rubbing at the extremities; small faint coffee stains at the head of the backstrip; some faint generalized soiling to the rear panel; dampstaining to the backstrip; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. Functional and for the most part intact, but showing multiple flaws. There was a separate caption pamphlet originally laid in. It is NOT present here. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Folio. (14.65 x 11 x 0.95 inches). 126 classic photographs by Cartier-Bresson, also provided a 14-page Foreward to the work. Conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. A Techical Report to the Photographs by Richard L. Simon. Pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Henri Matisse, who had just had his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, with matching pictorial dust wrapper. Language: English. Weight: 61.5 ounces. Published in Collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, France. First Edition (July 1952), unstated. May be a later printing. Simon and Schuster was just changing it's FE designations at this time to explicit declarations. There is at least no explicit statement of subsequent printings. No date provided on the title page; only on the copyright page and we have been unable to discover any copy described as offering an explicit statement of First Edition - or for that matter, of First Printing. Hardback with DJ. A landmark book in the development of modern photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of the candid photograph, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing "a decisive moment". First Edition (July 1952), unstated. May be a later printing. Simon and Schuster was just changing it's FE designations at this time.
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, unpaginated; VG/G; bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with decorations by Matisse, with a matching dust jacket; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$12.50', some chipping to jacket, closed tear along upper front hinge, with two pieces of tape, closed tear along rear lower hinge; small worming to lower rear edge of jacket, lower fore corner of ffep, title page; 126 plates; with caption booklet laid in; SH consignment; shelved case 11. 1363164. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Cartier-Bresson's classic work, with 126 photographs by âthe Raphael of 20th-century photographers." Folio, original illustrated boards. With the captions booklet laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Henri Matisse. "Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen. He is famous for his theory of the 'decisive moment'-that is seizing the split second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect? Today he ranks as one of the most important and influential photographers of this century" (Blodgett, 96)â""the Raphael of 20th-century photographers" (Icons of Photography, 58). Decisive Moment is Cartier-Bresson's most famous work, containing his most comprehensive and important statement on the meaning, technique, and utility of photography. "The simultaneous publication [of this edition with Images à la Sauvette] in New York in July 1952, with a cover by Matisse (who had just had his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art) was a tremendous success" (Roth, 134). With extremely scarce dust jacket; separate caption pamphlet (rarely found) laid in. Parr & Badger I:208. Open Book, 154-5.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated with 126 large black and white plates, handsomely printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse (spine somewhat toned and top 1/2 inch of spine is chipped, the bottom of spine is a little rubbed. The boards are very clean), dust wrapper is torn/taped and a bit browned but overall in good shape. New York: Simon and Schuster/Verve, (1952). First edition. Very good(+) in very good(-) dust wrapper Original captions pamphlet is laid-in. An important and notoriously delicate book. -- Parr/Badger I, 208-209; Roth 134-135; Open Book 154-155.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2056.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Please contact gallery for more information.
Seller: Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Publisher's paper-covered boards decorated by Matisse. Very Good with bowing to front board, bottom edge rubbed, contents a little toned. In Near Fine original unclipped dust jacket, bright and attractive with a little wear along top edge. With captions booklet laid in, a few tiny glue stains on front cover, Near Fine. A nice copy of the famous photography book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated with 126 large b/w photographic plates, printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse, with matching dust wrapper (price-clipped and just a bit roughed at the edges, but intact with several small chips at foot of rear panel; discoloration on inside from old cellotape, now removed). New York: Simon and Schuster/Verve, (1952). First edition. A near fine fresh copy in a very good dust wrapper. An important and notoriously delicate book, this is a remarkably fresh and clean copy, with none of the usual toning on binding. The wrapper is equally clean but does have minute wear at bottom edge along with 2" closed tear. -- Parr/Badger I, 208-209; Roth 134-135; Open Book 154-155.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5625.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, folio, pp. 29, and 126 photographic illustrations (some double-page) on rectos and versos of 62 plates; dust jacket with 2 or 3 small black ink marks on front panel, and slight wear at edges, else generally a fine copy in original printed pictorial boards by Henri Matisse, repeated design on jacket. Laid in, as issued, is the 12-page pamphlet The Decisive Moment - Captions.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, American issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12] pp. quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English. pp. 29, and 126 photographic illustrations (some double-page) on rectos and versos of 62 plates. 1 vols. Folio. Beautiful Copy in Original Dust Jacket. One of the defining books in the field of photography from the immediate post WWII years, In his important introduction to this collection, Cartier-Bresson sums up the principles that would inspire the work of countless photographers for the next half-century or more: "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression." The design was undertaken by Teriade, with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang, and the photographs engraved and printed in heliogravure by Draeger Frères. This state of the dust jacket prints comments on the rear inner flap by Monroe Wheeler, Philippe Halsman, Jacob Deschin, et al. The initial edition consisted of approximately 3000 French language copies and 7000 English language copies, and like any number of significant books, received highly positive reviews but sold only a slow trickle of copies. Because of the nature of the binding and dust jacket, copies in agreeable condition, as here, are few and far between. Open Book 154-155; Parr / Badger, vol. 1, 208-209; Roth 134-135 Decorated paper covered boards after design by Henri Matisse. An unusually nice copy, near fine, in slightly tanned dust jacket (replicating Matisse's design) with a few smudges at the extreme lower edges, a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panels, and a few short tears and a small creased snag at the edges of the rear panel pp. 29, and 126 photographic illustrations (some double-page) on rectos and versos of 62 plates. 1 vols. Folio First edition, American issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12] pp. quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon & Schuster, 1952.
Price: US$6750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing (July 1952). Published by Simon & Schuster 1952. Folio. Pictorial boards. Signed and inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson opposite title page. Book is very good with some wear along edges and small nicks/chips. Paper boards have small tears but the binding is still sound and all pages intact. Some shelf wear to boards. Spotting to back panel. Lacking the dust jacket and slipcase. Book cover artwork by Henri Matisse. Very scarce signed copy of Cartier-Bresson's masterpiece. Even scarcer signed as "Henri Cartier-Bresson" with his full name. Most signed copies are signed Henri or H Cartier-Bresson. Would be the centerpiece of any serious photography collector's library. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large quarto, [16], 126, [12]pp., illustrated. A very good copy in a dust jacket with a 1/2 inch small hole in front panel along with 1/2 inch abrasion at the corner of the front panel. Faint stain on fore-edge of front panel of jacket not affecting the board. Spine tanned, front inner hinge starting after page 2 of introduction, Bad fray to the spine head.Inscribed by Cartier-Bresson in French on the title page "Peter Pollack en souvenir d' une tres interesante conversation H Cartier-Bresson." Pollack was a well respected museum curator and photographer. Laid in is an invitation to a members' only preview of a Cartier-Bresson exhibition and lecture at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts; the lecture is titled "Forbears and Heirs of Cartier-Bresson by Peter Pollack, Honorary Advisor in Photography to the Worcester Art Museum" [therecipient of the inscription]. Non-authorial inscription on the front panel "To my true friend Pete from Dan (Christmas 1952)." We presume Dan gifted the book to Peter Pollack, who then had it signed after his lecture. Additionally laid in is a 9 page quarto folder "Decisive Moment Captions" describing each photo in the text. Perhaps the photographer's most important book; quite uncommon signed.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Cartier-Bresson's classic work, with 126 photographs by âthe Raphael of 20th-century photographers." Folio, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by Cartier-Bresson on the title page, "à Joan et Eliot, 'The Decisive Moment' de l'amitià , Henri, 19 Jan 57, la vraie patrie c'est l'amitià ." The recipient was Eliot Elisofon, a fellow photographer and a founding member of the Photo League in 1936. He was one of the most active and productive members: he gave guest lectures (1938â"43); co-organized the Men at Work project with Lewis Hine (1940); served periodically as president between 1939 and 1941; taught courses on photojournalism and flash photography (1940â"41); and participated in numerous exhibitions. Elisofon taught at many institutions, including theÂInstitute of American Artists SchoolÂ(1936-1941), the New School (1938), the Clarence H. White School of Photography (November 1940 â" April 1941), the Photo League (1941), the New School for Social Research (1942), theÂMuseum of Modern Art, and theÂSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as Yale University, Syracuse University, Radcliffe College, Wellesley College, and Sarah Lawrence College. Elisofonâs first assignments for Life magazine appeared in 1937, Tin Type Photographer and Jewish New Year, and in 1941 his image of General Patton was the first color cover of Life. Patton was intrigued by Elisofonâs desire to get as close to the action as possible and nicknamed him âHellsapopin.â He was the only photographer to accompany Gen. Patton throughout the North African Campaign. His photographs became an exhibition titled The Tunisian Triumph, which opened in June 1943 at MoMA and traveled to 20 cities in the United States. From 1942 to 1964 he was a staff photographer for Life magazine.ÂWith the captions booklet laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Matisse. An exceptional association, rare and desirable signed. "Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen. He is famous for his theory of the 'decisive moment'-that is seizing the split second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect? Today he ranks as one of the most important and influential photographers of this century" (Blodgett, 96)â""the Raphael of 20th-century photographers" (Icons of Photography, 58). Decisive Moment is Cartier-Bresson's most famous work, containing his most comprehensive and important statement on the meaning, technique, and utility of photography. "The simultaneous publication [of this edition with Images à la Sauvette] in New York in July 1952, with a cover by Matisse (who had just had his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art) was a tremendous success" (Roth, 134). With extremely scarce dust jacket; separate caption pamphlet (rarely found) laid in. Parr & Badger I:208. Open Book, 154-5.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.