CENDRARS, Blaise (1887-1961)Livre Rare Book
La Banlieue de Paris
1949rif. 81328Paris: Pierre Seghers Éditeur 1949. First Edition. First Impression. Small quarto 24cm; original pale yellow paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; 56-1355pp featuring 130 photogravure images by Doisneau. Spine ends bumped upper corners tapped with wear to lower corners gentle sunning to spine with some of the usual light dust-soil to covers and a hint of foxing to text edges; Very Good lacking the dustjacket. "When Doisneau began to photograph the suburbs of Gentilly and Montrouge they were still the tough but spirited working-class communities celebrated in the poetic-realist films of Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. But Doisneau caught them just as they were about to change and expand beyond recognition making this book a valuable document that looks unsentimentally yet affectionately at a popular idea of the French working class" PARR & BADGER Vol.1 p.201. Pierre Seghers, Éditeur unknown
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