The Decisive Moment

THE DECISIVE MOMENT, Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952, first edition, bottom 1/2 inch of spine chipped, 1/4 inch closed tear to the bottom of the front board, light wear and tear to the head of the spine, text block a bit loose, 2 small faint tape stains to each of the paste-downs, else a bright vg copy… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing (July 1952). Published by Simon & Schuster 1952. Folio. Pictorial boards. Signed and inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson opposite title page. Book is very good with some wear along edges and small nicks/chips. Paper boards have small tears but the binding is still sound and all… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster in Collaboration with Éditions Verve, 1952. First edition, American issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12] pp. quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English. pp. 29, and 126 photographic illustrations (some double-page) on rectos and versos of 62 plates. 1 vols. Folio. Decorated paper covered boards after design by… Read more about this item

The Decisive Moment with dust jacket & caption booklet. First edition, published July 1952 by Simon & Schuster & Verve featuring 126 photo reproductions. Light foxing to the dust jacket, sun fading, some water droplets (4-5), paper loss to spine, signs of wear along edges & corners. Internal contents very good. Some foxing along fore edge.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First. hardcover. good. Cartier-Bresson. Illustrated with 126 large b/w plates, handsomely printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse (sold as-is: the boards are lightly dust soiled and darkened at edges; the spine is considerably darkened and repaired, with a chip on the letter "D"; interior is clean). New York:… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Folio, unpaginated; VG/G; bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with decorations by Matisse, with a matching dust jacket; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$12.50', some chipping to jacket, closed tear along upper front hinge, with two pieces of tape, closed tear along rear lower hinge;… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First American edition. Publisher's paper-covered boards decorated by Matisse. Very Good with bowing to front board, bottom edge rubbed, contents a little toned. In Near Fine original unclipped dust jacket, bright and attractive with a little wear along top… Read more about this item

New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 1952. Hardcover First Edition (July 1952), unstated. May be a later printing. Simon and Schuster was just changing it's FE designations at this time. Very Good in Good DJ: The Book shows indications of careful use: moderate shelving wear to the lower extremities, wit scant exposure of the underlying board at the… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Verve Editions, Paris, 1952. First edition, folio, pp. 29, and 126 photographic illustrations (some double-page) on rectos and versos of 62 plates; dust jacket with 2 or 3 small black ink marks on front panel, and slight wear at edges, else generally a fine copy in original printed pictorial boards by… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Large quarto, [16], 126, [12]pp., illustrated. A very good copy in a dust jacket with a 1/2 inch small hole in front panel along with 1/2 inch abrasion at the corner of the front panel. Faint stain on fore-edge of front panel of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Good. Original Matisse designed boards, light wear at spine ends, bottom edge slightly bumped, jacket a little grubby with significant loss at both spine ends, browning at edges, but otherwise intact. An attractive copy of a notoriously fragile book. Printed in France by Draeger for Simon &… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. tall case. First edition. Includes the captions booklet. No jacket. Covers edgeworn, with bits missing from spine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Cartier-Bresson; Matisse. Illustrated with 126 large b/w photographic plates, printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse, with matching dust wrapper (price-clipped and just a bit roughed at the edges, but intact with several small chips at foot of rear panel; discoloration on inside from old… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards by Matisse. Full page photos in gravure. Captions booklet is laid in. Pictorial jacket by Matisse, previously repaired and presented in mylar. The spine and front and back panels are joined by tape up and down spine, which has been replaced with brown paper - no titles on jacket spine. Rear… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. Very Good/very good. Captions laid in as issued. Folio. 126 illus. Dust jacket slightly browned on spine, per usual & slightly torn top of spine; lightly stained in one corner & on spine. Pictorial jacket designed by Cartier-Bresson.

THE DECISIVE MOMENT, Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952, first edition, some bumping, short closed tears to the bit tanned spine extremities, light wear to the fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg/vg+ copy with near fine contents with the original caption booklet laid in as issued in a good Matisse dust-wrapper repeating the design of the… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions VERVE, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Folio. (16)pp., 126 plates, 63 plates, (4)pp., 64-126 plates, (12)pp. 12pp. brochure with captions laid in. Original Illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on covers and spine, in original dustjacket with same motif and lettering, protected by modern mylar.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(-). Cartier-Bresson. Illustrated with 126 large black and white plates, handsomely printed in heliogravure. Folio, pictorial paper-covered boards illustrated by Matisse (spine somewhat toned and top 1/2 inch of spine is chipped, the bottom of spine is a little rubbed. The boards are very clean), dust wrapper is… Read more about this item