Signed review copy. An advance review copy, signed by André Kértesz, who came to Paris from Budapest in 1925 and lived there until 1936 when he left for New York to work with the Keystone Agency. A dispute with the nephew of Keystone's founder, Bert Garai, led to Kertész abandoning his contract, and the subsequent lack of money and the outbreak of the Second World War made his return to Paris impossible. Kértesz's photographs are arranged loosely in three chapters: morning, afternoon, and night, with a dust-jacket design by Alexey Brodovitch, who'd given him work at Harper's Bazaar. Day of Paris is an undoubtedly nostalgic look at life in pre-war Paris by one of the most influential photographers working there in the twenties and thirties.

First edition, an advance review copy, signed by Kertesz in a later hand on the title-page; 8vo (241 x 180 mm, 9½ x 7 in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone; plain endpapers, toned, olive cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in black on spine and upper side, lightly toned, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket designed by Alexey Brodovitch, printed in black, light wear to extremities, light creasing to head of spine, abrasion to lower panel, publisher's review slip laid in, a close to near-fine copy; [iv], 148pp.

Regards à travers Le Livre 81; The Book of 101 Books pp114-5; The Photobook: A History I, p200; The Open Book pp138-9; Auer Collection p306; Paris: Les Livre de photographie p260.