![SOUGEZ, Emmanuel. Regarde! [Look!] Paris: H. Jonquières, 1932. Small 2° (170 x 180 mm). 24 black and white photographs. (Light soiling on the title.) Original photo-illustrated covers bound with studs (spine chipped at the foot and without label, some creases and wear).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_03013_0435_000(sougez_emmanuel_regarde_look_paris_h_jonquieres_1932_small_2_24_black025316).jpg?w=1)
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SOUGEZ, Emmanuel. Regarde! [Look!] Paris: H. Jonquières, 1932. Small 2° (170 x 180 mm). 24 black and white photographs. (Light soiling on the title.) Original photo-illustrated covers bound with studs (spine chipped at the foot and without label, some creases and wear).
FIRST EDITION. 'Precise, elegant and lyrical' (The Photobook). One of the best children's photobooks from the period of high modernism -- a time during which 'publishers gave photographers a freer rein than they might have enjoyed if illustrating adult books, where their audience had much more rigid expectations' (The Photobook). Auer, p.182; The Photobook, vol.I, p.102 and reproducing the cover on the dustjacket.
FIRST EDITION. 'Precise, elegant and lyrical' (The Photobook). One of the best children's photobooks from the period of high modernism -- a time during which 'publishers gave photographers a freer rein than they might have enjoyed if illustrating adult books, where their audience had much more rigid expectations' (The Photobook). Auer, p.182; The Photobook, vol.I, p.102 and reproducing the cover on the dustjacket.