Description:
[Paris]: Prisma, 1947. Complete in three volumes. First editions limited to 500 copies, these number 375. Quartos, 271; 335; [42] pages copiously illustrated throughout in b/w & occasionally color (including color frontispiece portraits of Albert and Francois Fratellini in volume 3). Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines & upper covers which are also decorated with a circus illustration within gilt blocking, in photo-illustrated dust jackets. Text in French.Boards lightly scuffed, diagonal loss at the bottom corner of the upper cover of volume 2 (about one inch by half an inch), amateurishly repaired with cello-tape which also affects the lower corner of the text block (diminishing through p. 147, text unaffected), modest foxing & toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, previous owner's small address label on the front pastedown of each volume; jackets modestly rubbed, soiled, & faded (particularly volume 2), with some short tears & losses, & a few old tape repairs on… Read More
