Images à la Sauvette: photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson

Images à la Sauvette (Paris: Éditions Verve, 1952). First edition, large folio. Unpaginated.  Black‑and‑white gravure plates. Collection of Photographs by Henri Cartier‑Bresson from the first twenty-five years of his career. Printed in exquisite heliogravure by Draeger Frères for Éditions Verve. Introduction and aperçus by Cartier‑Bresson. Original white paper–covered boards featuring a colour cut‑out design by Henri Matisse. Condition: Boards showing edge soiling and toning. Spine with showing signs of splitting and light loss.