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[INSCRIBED] Un Certain Robert Doisneau: La très véridique histoire d'un photographe racontée par lui-même [Association Copy] by Doisneau, Robert - 1990

by Doisneau, Robert

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[INSCRIBED] Un Certain Robert Doisneau: La très véridique histoire d'un photographe racontée par lui-même [Association Copy] by Doisneau, Robert - 1990

[INSCRIBED] Un Certain Robert Doisneau: La très véridique histoire d'un photographe racontée par lui-même [Association Copy]

by Doisneau, Robert

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Quarto (12 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches; 325 x 250 mm), 173, [3] pages, black cloth, in a photo-illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.

INSCRIBED on the half title to fellow photographer David Gamble.

Playing off the title, Doisneau writes to Gamble: "Un Certain Robert Doisneau, transforme un certain David Gamble / en receleur / car toutes ces imàges ont été volées / au hasard des rencontres. / En toute complicité / Robert Doisneau / avril 1990" (Translation: "A certain Robert Doisneau transforms a certain David Gamble into a smuggler because all of these images were stolen from chance encounters. In complete complicity, Robert Doisneau April 1990").

Profusely illustrated with black and white and a few color photographs, captioned by Doisneau (1912-1994), spanning his career, including a "scrapbook" of family photos. Cover image by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Text in French.

CONDITION: Fine in a dust jacket with two closed edge tears on the top of the rear panel along with a couple of scratches and creases. Internally, clean, bright, and unmarked. A beautiful copy.



  • Bookseller Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA US (US)
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Near Fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Chêne
  • Place of Publication Paris
  • Date Published 1990

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by DOISNEAU, ROBERT

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, N.d. [1955], 1955. First American edition. 4to; unpaginated [approximately 25]; 12 photogravure illustrations from photographs by Doisneau. Short tear to bottom margin of six leaves; else a good copy in original red cloth in a dust jacket with some loss to corner of front and rear panels. A scarce children's counting book by the witty French photographer..
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