ABBOTT, BÉRÉNICE (1898-1991) [Signed] - Lot 1

ABBOTT, BÉRÉNICE (1898-1991) [Signed] ATGET, EUGENE (1857-1927) Atget photographe de Paris. New York, E. Weyhe, 1930. In-4 (27.5 x 21.5 cm). First edition published simultaneously in New York by the publisher E. Weyhe and in Paris by the publisher Henri Jonquière, signed by Bérénice Abbott on the occasion of the exhibition organized in New York in November 1930 at the Weyhe Gallery. 218 pp. 96 photographs by Atget reproduced in heliogravure on the front cover. Frontispiece, portrait of Eugène Atget by Bérénice Abbott. French text by Pierre Mac Orlan. Complete with table of photographic reproductions presented in a six-page trifold folder, mitered at the end of the book. Publisher's red cloth binding with title printed in gold lettering. Wear and defects to spines and hinges. Bérénice Abbott was the driving force behind the rediscovery of Eugène Atget. Most of the photographs reproduced in the book are from her own collection. A rare copy signed by Bérénice Abbott in pencil beneath the frontispiece portrait of Eugène Atget. This copy also belonged to the American painter and writer Don Freeman, with a dedication on the flyleaf "To my friend Sam Rosenberg, who is very much in focus, Don Freeman". Ref. M. Parr & G. Badger, volume I, p. 127. A. Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 90-91. Auer, 802 photo books from the M + M Auer collection, p. 154. Ref. Koetzle Eyes on Paris, Paris im Fotobuch pp. 88-93.