Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(ATGET, EUGÈNE.) Atget Photographe de Paris. Preface by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Illustrated with reproductions of Atget's photographs of turn-of-the-century Paris. 4to, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, recased, backstrip sunned; with caption booklet bound in. Roth 60; Parr/Badger I 127; Hasselblad 90. first edition. New York: E. Weyhe, [1930]

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This, the first monograph on Atget, was published by the Weyhe Gallery, which is now known for their innovative and progressive pairing of art exhibition and related publication. The ground floor of this gallery with a checkerboard facade was entierly devoted to books.