First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original cream card covers printed in red and black. Illustrated with 53 photographs in black and white by Brassai. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing to the extremities and faint creases to the spine. The covers are a little spotted and toned, especially at the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks.
Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "Pour / Enid Finnemore / avec tout ma sympathie / en amical souvenir / de Brassai / Paris, le 10 Mai / 1965". The recipient was arts correspondent for the Manchester Evening News.
Stock code: 24213
£275
Paris: Gallimard.
1956