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Lot 383
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
800
Price Realized
$585
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Lot Description
[Photography] Cartier-Bresson, Henry. Group of 2 Titles
The Decisive Moment
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1952). First edition, American issue, printed in France by Draeger. Folio. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Cartier-Bresson. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, with a design after Henri Matisse, light wear and toning along edges, corners bumped; ownership stamp on front free endpaper; in original matching pictorial dust-jacket, ink stamp "Price $12.50" on lower front flap, scattered wear along panel edges, light soiling. Lacking the separate quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English.
Together with:
The Europeans
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1955). First edition in English, printed in France by Draeger. Folio. With the separate quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English laid in. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Cartier-Bresson. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, with a design after Joan Miro, light edge-wear.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.



