THIS LOT CONSISTS OF 2 BOOKS BY ROBERT DOISNEAU: 1,2,3,4,5, n.d. and Robert Doisneau (Trois secondes d'Èternité), 1979.
1,2,3,4,5. Robert Doisneau. Verses by Arthur Gregor. Designed by Albert Plécy. Éditions Clairefontaine, Lausanne, 1955. Unpaged. Quarto. Stiff, photo-illustrated board. Gravure reproductions. Text in French.
Doisneau's photographic children's book contains twelve full-page gravure plates. Each plate is an image depicting a corresponding number of objects; for example, two kittens in shoes, five large snails lined up in a shallow ditch, seven acrobats forming a human pyramid, nine round hats on people below the Eiffel Tower, twelve eggs laid out in the grass. Both the French and the American edition are scarce.
Fair-; two inch tears to plates 8 and 9; one inch tear to plate 6 and 7 (near spine); binding starting, but holding; edge wear and damp-staining to cover images.
Robert Doisneau (Trois secondes d'Èternité). Introductory text by Doisneau. Contrejour, Paris, 1979. 143 pp. Quarto. Hardbound in dust jacket. Over 100 reproductions printed in heliogravure.
One of the finest Doisneau retrospectives. Unlike later editions of this book, this one is printed in rich gravure.
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; a couple of 'dings' to dust jacket; boards only slightly affected; a bit of edge wear and abrasion to jacket. |
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