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PAUL STRAND
La France de profil. Text by Claude Roy. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Quarto (279 x 218 mm). 71 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, original glassine dust jacket (some chipping along spine panel and at extremities); black cloth folding case. Provenance: Jonathan Williams, American poet, essayist and photographer (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY STRAND. Jonathan Williams's copy. Signed copies are uncommon: American Book Prices Current does not record any sold at auction. 101 Books, pp. 136-137; The Open Book, pp. 158-59; The Photobook, vol. I, p.207 ("he was a photographer to his fingertips, the kind that seeks and finds poetry everywhere. La France de profil exemplifies this to perfection"). [With:] An autograph letter signed by Strand, April 1, 1957, to Mr. Oring, offering suggestions where he might be able to purchase Strand's books in New York. (2)
La France de profil. Text by Claude Roy. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Quarto (279 x 218 mm). 71 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, original glassine dust jacket (some chipping along spine panel and at extremities); black cloth folding case. Provenance: Jonathan Williams, American poet, essayist and photographer (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY STRAND. Jonathan Williams's copy. Signed copies are uncommon: American Book Prices Current does not record any sold at auction. 101 Books, pp. 136-137; The Open Book, pp. 158-59; The Photobook, vol. I, p.207 ("he was a photographer to his fingertips, the kind that seeks and finds poetry everywhere. La France de profil exemplifies this to perfection"). [With:] An autograph letter signed by Strand, April 1, 1957, to Mr. Oring, offering suggestions where he might be able to purchase Strand's books in New York. (2)