DOISNEAU, Robert. La Banlieue de Paris. [The Suburbs of Paris.] Text by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. 4° (233 x 172 mm). 130 black and white photographs. Original boards, spine and front cover printed in black, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket, original photo-illustrated endpapers (small chip repaired with tape on the verso, light wear at the extremities).

DOISNEAU, Robert. La Banlieue de Paris. [The Suburbs of Paris.] Text by Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. 4° (233 x 172 mm). 130 black and white photographs. Original boards, spine and front cover printed in black, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket, original photo-illustrated endpapers (small chip repaired with tape on the verso, light wear at the extremities).

FIRST FRENCH (PREFERRED) EDITION IN DUST-JACKET of Doisneau's 'best book' (The Photobook). Doisneau, who grew up in the Paris suburbs saw his pictures '"as self-portraits, the reflection of this absurd scenery [he] detested" yet viewed with genuine understanding and unsentimental warmth' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.132-33; Auer, p.336; The Photobook, vol. I, p.201; cf. Regards à travers le livre 94.