EL LISSITZKY and Il'ia ERENBURG. Moi Parizh. [My Paris.] Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1933. Oblong 8° (163 x 185 mm). 121 black and white photographs and 2 black and white photomontages. Original blue paper-covered boards (some wear at the extremities, small area of fading). Provenance: V. Sidamonidze (d. 1937; notable Georgian collector; two neat stamps).
EL LISSITZKY and Il'ia ERENBURG. Moi Parizh. [My Paris.] Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1933. Oblong 8° (163 x 185 mm). 121 black and white photographs and 2 black and white photomontages. Original blue paper-covered boards (some wear at the extremities, small area of fading). Provenance: V. Sidamonidze (d. 1937; notable Georgian collector; two neat stamps).

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EL LISSITZKY and Il'ia ERENBURG. Moi Parizh. [My Paris.] Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1933. Oblong 8° (163 x 185 mm). 121 black and white photographs and 2 black and white photomontages. Original blue paper-covered boards (some wear at the extremities, small area of fading). Provenance: V. Sidamonidze (d. 1937; notable Georgian collector; two neat stamps).

FIRST EDITION. 'A significant addition to the photographic bibliography of this most photographed of cities... Ehrenburg contributes a frank, unsparing view of the Parisian proletariat, of which the socialist dissident Atget himself would surely have approved' (The Photobook). Auer, p.197; The Open Book, pp.112-3; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.132-3; Regards à travers le livre 58; The Russian Avant-Garde Book, pp.218-19.

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