(DOISNEAU, Robert). CENDRARS, Blaise

La Banlieue de Paris

Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre (1949). First Edition. (Although this is the correct first edition, the Pierre Seghers edition published later in the same year has become more desirable, largely for its dust jacket. This copy, the Guilde du Livre edition, was not issued with a jacket. Otherwise the books are the same.) Small quarto. Number 2734 of 4300 press-numbered copies. The photographer Robert Doisneau's landmark first book. Images of postwar Paris suburbs, with just the right mix of romanticism and decrepitude. (Parr / Badger, v1, 203; Roth 132-133; Auer 336). Near fine in cream boards.