Brassai

1949 · ref. 89685 — Paris: Lles Éditions du Point du Jour 1949. First Edition. No. 1137 of 2500 regular copies on vélin alfa from a total edition of 2600. 12mo 16.5cm x 13cm tan printed thick-paper wrappers; 90 pp. in tan printed wrappers soft cover. A clean unworn copy text unopened and minimally toned; about Fine. Introduction by Henry Miller; text entirely in French. A portrait in poetry of working-class Parisian life written in the voice of "Marie" a cleaning lady. Though we are more accustomed to seeing his portraits in the medium of photography this is clearly familiar territory for Brassaï the great documentarian of Paris at street-level. Lles Éditions du Point du Jour unknown