76/ 511 [Photography]. Brassaï. Paris de nuit. Text Paul Morand. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, n.d. (1933), 1st ed., (12) textp., 62 full-p. photogr. ills., photogr. endpapers and photogr. wr. by BRASSAÏ, orig. spiral binding, 4to.

- Wrappers sl. worn along extremities (corners sl. worse, w. sm. fold in lower corner front- and backwr. and last 4 lvs.).

= First edition of Brassaï's first publication of photographs, published in the series "Réalités". Parr/ Badger I, p.134: "Brassaï's nocturnal vision of Paris is so well known, and his book Paris de nuit has been so influential (...). Paris de nuit is also a ravishing book object in a purely physical sense. The printing represents arguably the most luscious gravure ever seen, the blacks being so rich and deep that after handling the book one expects to find sooty deposits all over one's fingers. The graduation of tones is wonderfully subtle, describing an apparently infinite range of black and near-black tones. The layout, with its characteristic full-page bleeds, never more felicitously employed, takes us from image to image, from page to page, and across night-time Paris, with effortless panache." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.