BRASSAÏ [pseud Gyula Halász]; Henry Miller, foreword

Histoire de Marie

Paris: Lles Éditions du Point du Jour, 1949. First Edition. No. 966 of 2500 regular copies on vélin alfa, from a total edition of 2600. 12mo (16.5cm x 13cm), tan printed thick-paper wrappers; 90 pp. in tan printed wrappers (soft cover). A clean, unworn copy, text unopened and minimally toned; about Fine. Introduction by Henry Miller; text entirely in French.

A portrait in poetry of working-class Parisian life, written in the voice of "Marie," a cleaning lady. Though we are more accustomed to seeing his portraits in the medium of photography, this is clearly familiar territory for Brassaï, the great documentarian of Paris at street-level.

Price: $250.00

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