Lartigue, Jacques-Henri

Boyhood Photos [1966 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING]

Ami Guichard, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Lausanne, Switzerland: Ami Guichard 1966. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Burgundy laminated cloth-covered boards with tipped-in sepia plate, gilded title and foliate design on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Essay and captions by Jean Fondin from interviews with Lartigue. 128 pages filled with 62 tipped-in black and white and sepia-toned reproductions on lightweight matt gray cover stock paper. Book Condition: Fine; A solid, tight, clean copy showing light rubbing, wear to cover edges and corners.

Boyhood Photos was designed to mimic Lartigue's own photo scrapbook, this book contains snapshot-sized reproductions of Lartigue's most beloved photographs. From the introduction: "Lartigue's pictures, along with his accompanying comments and recollections, represent a kind of family album which summons up not merely the fanciful life of the lavish and successful Lartigue family, but in some sense, the childhood of a century as well....He chronicles how he and his brother and cousins amused themselves on vacations at their country estate, in Paris, among the fashionable ladies and fantastic new devices (horseless carriages, flying machines) of the 1900s." Near fine. Item #4890
ISBN: 0106613618

Price: $200.00