Brassai — Voluptes de Paris

Paris-Publications, [, 1934. Softcover. Previous owner’s signature inside front cover. As is nearly always the case with this book, the plastic or Bakelite rings that once held the book together are lacking, having apparently broken (they must have been quite fragile), and so the covers and the pages are entirely disbound. However, this copy differs from most others in being more complete: it has 2 pages of text and 46 pages of images. Most copies have either 38 or 44 pages of images. This is said to be the result of censorship; since the pages are unnumbered and there is no list of the images, the removal of one or more leaves would not be noticeable. Or it may be the result of there not having been an equal number of good copies of each leaf when the book was assembled. In any case, this is (except for the binding rings), the most complete, and probably earliest, state of this scarce volume. Some remnants of celotape on the covers, probably from an attempt to compensate for the missing binding rings. Credit to Brassia inside back cover and price (40 francs) on back cover. ]. 48p. .