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The Decisive Moment
by CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 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" [the recipient 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.
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- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10851
- Title
- The Decisive Moment
- Author
- CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- French photography, Modern photography, Signed books, Art & design
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Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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