[Paris], Mercure de France, 1976
Signed. Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) began his career as a photogravure printer, becoming a freelance documentary photographer after the war, joining Realites magazine as a staff photographer in 1951. La Survivance contains a selection of work from throughout Boubat's career, earning him the Les Rencontres d'Arles book award in 1977.
First edition, signed on half-title; folio (359 x 268 mm, 14¼ x 10½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure; tan cloth-covered-boards, titles stamped in gold on spine, head of spine and bottom corners bumped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, wear to extremities, creasing to head of spine and bottom corners, near-fine in a very good dust-jacket; [viii], 107, [9]pp.
First edition, signed on half-title; folio (359 x 268 mm, 14¼ x 10½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure; tan cloth-covered-boards, titles stamped in gold on spine, head of spine and bottom corners bumped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, wear to extremities, creasing to head of spine and bottom corners, near-fine in a very good dust-jacket; [viii], 107, [9]pp.
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