The Decisive Moment by Henri

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster (in collaboration with Verve of Paris), New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. First Edition. Folio, unaginated (126 photographs). A good copy only in the publisher's paper-covered boards (designed by Henri Matisse). Front board a bit warped, and chipped at the crown. Some signatures loosened, but still holding and intact. In a poor, chipped dust jacket, which is in two pieces, missing the entirety of the spine and about 15% of the front panel. Overall just an OK copy of this milestone publication, with no stains or disfiguring damage. Lacks the caption booklet. Seller Inventory # 2659

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions VERVE, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: poor to vg. First edition. Folio. (16),126 plates, (10)pp. brochure. Illustrated dustjacket over illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Color drawing on cover and dj especially designed for this publication by Matisse. This volume contains a large sampling of Cartier-Bresson's best b/w photographs. Includes a text by the photographer about his philosophy of photography and art as well as a section on the technical aspects of photography. "Henri Cartier-Bresson carries his Leica camera with him at all times. He wanders through life looking for decisive moments - historical ones, emotional ones, beautiful ones. When the decisive moment arrives, he immediately composes the picture in the viewfinder of his camera and snaps the shutter. The results are some of the most memorable pictures of our time." (Simon & Schuster). 10 page brochure with captions to photographs laid-in. DJ with wear along edges, medium chips along edges, incl. one inch chip at top, small transparent tape affixed to top right corner, and, in lieu of missing spine, front and back cover of dj affixed to spine with transparent tape. DJ slightly age-toned. Spine itself is complete with tape affixed to hold dj covers, except for very small chip at tail of spine. Previous owner's name inked to free front endpaper. DJ in overall poor, binding in good+, interior and brochure in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 44486

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. unpaginated. Blue gilt spine titled cloth with faint spot. Light toning internally, minor soiling on blank preliminary and rear pages, otherwise near fine. Captions booklet is laid in. Unusual binding.The seminal collection of his now most well-known and often reproduced photographs which also includes his essay concerning his thoughts and ideas on photography and his "decisive moment" philosophy. Roth 101 Size: Folio. Seller Inventory # 028289

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Seller Inventory # 80756

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster/Editions Verve, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Folio. With original pictorial boards designed by Matisse. Lacking spine, edge worn. Mylar dust wrapper. Internally quite nice. Some staining to top corner of first few pages. 126 reproductions of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. Includes original captions booklet. "The Decisive Moment" originally titled "Images a la Sauvette"-is one of the most famous books in the history of photography, assembling Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was lavishly embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. Its English title has defined the notion of the famous formal peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image. Seller Inventory # 1903130002

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster, in Collaboration with Editions Verve Paris, New York, 1952. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Henri Matisse (illustrator). First Edition. Very Good, top 1" of backstrip missing, several small tears to gutters, lacking the dust jacket. Laid in, Fine as issued, is the 12-page pamphlet The Decisive Moment - Captions. A sound copy of this photography classic. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Seller Inventory # 006308

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First American Edition. Published in New York by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris. Printed in France by Draege, cover designed by Matisse. Foreword by Cartier-Bresson, 126 photographs of the Occident and Orient. Lacking dust jacket. Includes an essay by Richard L. Simon, titled "A Technical Report to Photographers." Brochure with captions for the 126 photographs laid in. Backstrip has some tears and cracks but is complete, contents tight. Binding corners lightly bumped, light tanning to binding. Interior is very good/near fine; a bright and clean copy. Brochure in fine condition. Seller Inventory # 15475

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Good in Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. First American edition. Unpaginated. 126 photos, some double page. Folio with covers designed by Henri Matisse with his distinctive cut-outs in black, green and blue. Lower corners bumped, wear at head and tail of spine and ding at top inside corner. Binding loose with some signatures loose, but attached. In original dust jacket with soiling, chip to bottom of spine, some chipping along the top and edges and general edgewear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Name and date [1954] of previous owner on front inside board, interior clean. Published in New York by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris. Printed in France by Draege. Foreword by Cartier-Bresson. Includes informative technical essay by Richard L. Simon, "A Technical Report to Photographers." Brochure with captions for the 126 photographs laid in. One of the iconic photography books of the 20th century. Seller Inventory # 76086

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About this Item: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952, 1952. First Edition; American issue; published in cooperation with Verve, printed in France. Only a good copy; the caption booklet is laid in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Seller Inventory # 34796

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, France, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. Large format photography book. Edges of the spine a little worn.Corners are also worn. Binding is good. Some discoloration to the cover due to age. Includes booklet of captions. Seller Inventory # 003181

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About this Item: Verve, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Over-sized hardback book titled IMAGES A LA SAUVETTE (The Decisive Moment)par Henri Cartier Bresson. Published by Verve in 1952. Text in French. Illustrated boards designed by Henri Matisse. Boards show moderate soiling/worn at edge with back-strap (outer spine) missing with boards still holding firm - interior pages clean. International shipping may require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-D-2) rareviewbooks. Seller Inventory # RVB05161702

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Editions VERVE of Paris, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. 126 stunning full page black and white photographs from around the world by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004), considered to be the founder of photojournalism, who developed the method of candid or street photography from which the expression "the decisive moment" derives. In his own words, "Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera." (Washington Post, 1957).At the rear of the folio is the following information on the production of the volume: "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The French Edition by Verve (Images a la Sauvette) and the American Edition by Simon and Schuster (The Decisive Moment), were conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The engravings and printing is the work of the master printers Draeger Freres of Paris. It was completed the 22nd of July, 1952."Folio, 126 photographs, text, Index. White illustrated boards, designs by Henri Matisse. Spine toned, small 1 1/4" chip at head of spine, rear board very faintly toned. Small previous owner signature top of front free end paper. With the Captions brochure loosely inserted. OCLC: 6557867. Seller Inventory # 18514

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First American edition. In publisher's paper-covered boards decorated by Matisse, in a price-clipped dust jacket replicating design on boards, with captions book laid in. Good. Binding weak and fragile with pages pulling from binding, and with exposure to multiple hinges. Paper covered boards toned at the spine and edges, lightly worn at spine ends. The dust jacket is toned and lightly soiled, with spine joints completely reinforced with tape to the verso and occasionally to the front side as well, spine panel is toned and lightly water stained. A mediocre survival of a notoriously fragile book and dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 170918001

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, NY, 1952. Hardcover. First American edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by Draeger Freres, Paris. " The Decisive Moment" Captions laid-in. Considered the father of modern photojournalism, he used a 35 mm Leica camera, composing in the view finder, and what he saw you got -- no cropping or dark room manipulation. Clean, fresh copy, some cellotape repairs to spine. Orig. pictorial boards. Very good. Seller Inventory # 20000

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster, NY, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Matisse (cover design) (illustrator). 1st US Edition. One of the high points of mid-20thC photography books. Stunning b&w reproductions of some of Cartier-Bresson's most famous photographs. Cover art - and matching dusthacket - designed by Matisse. There are a few discrete private school stamps here and there, and the dustjacket is toned and slightly worn. Still a highly presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 010877

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster (1952), New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 14-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. 126 full-page black-and-white photographs. *** 'Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment' --- Jeffrey Ladd in an essay accompanying the re-release of this great photobook. *** This is the original 1952 American edition whose translated title, 'The Decisive Moment', came to define a photography movement. The original book, with its destinctive cover design by Henri Matisse, is a fragile production almost devoid of text -- the captions were printed in a separate booklet to accompany but not detract from the images. First edition (first printing). Overall, a very good copy with the original dust jacket and captions pamphlet. *** The book shows mild edge wear, with some tanning to the spine, and a former owner signature on title page. The jacket has some edge and corner wear and a few small edge chips. The front panel is tanned at top and front edges. Captions supplied in a separate stapled pamphlet, laid in. Better than most copies. [JSP02; JSP04; 206952]. Seller Inventory # 206952

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About this Item: New York: Simon and Schuster / Editions Verve of Paris., 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Size: 10 ¾ in. x 14 ½ in. Laid-in is a booklet listing the captions of the photos. Design printed paper over boards. The colophon: "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson The French edition by Verve .and the American edition by Simon Schuster (The Decisive Moment) were conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The engraving and printing is the work of the Master printers Draeger Freres of Paris." Gift inscription in ink on front free end-paper: "Margaret H. Sherwin, Willoughby Ohio. From Peter and Brian, December 25th, 1952." Some of the paper surface of this sheet shows abrasion from the removal of cellophane tape. The upper and lower ends of the spine show chipping away of the paper and cardboard, ¼ inch to the top, ½ inch to the bottom. A damp-stain shows on the upper edge, and this has affected some pages at the front and at the back of the book. There is some spotting to the fore-edge. Spots on the rear panel. Weight is 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. The scan shows the back cover. Seller Inventory # ABE-2084257471

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster / Editions Verve, 1952. FIRST EDITION. 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 with the original caption booklet laid in as issued in a good to very good Matisse dust-wrapper repeating the design of the covers with some chipping to the base of the spine and other light wear and tear and soiling. Most certainly a cornerstone book in the building of a 20th century photography library. Seller Inventory # NF3270

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952. Condition: Very good. First edition. One of the most important photography books ever printed. Cartier-Bresson has selected 126 photos -at random, he assures us -as an expression of his selection of the decisive moment; the point at which the photographer destroys the coating of the film. With its dust-wrapper commissioned expressly from Matisse, this is the flower of mid-century photography books. Published jointly with Éditions Verve of Paris. With the original book of captions laid in. The front board splays a little, and the dust-wrapper is, as nearly always, rather toned, and a little chipped and torn at the peripheries. Still, a very good example of this epochal book. Seller Inventory # 600007

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About this Item: Published in New York by Simon and Schuster, in Collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris. 1952, 1952. Folio (11 x 14.5ins, 280 x 370mm) publisher's specially commissioned printed boards by Henri Matisse using his Cut Outs technique, backstrip slightly yellowed, a couple of small nicks to its top, otherwise very good and sound. Issued without wrappers. This issue in the English language has a pp 14 introduction discussing The Picture-Story, Composition, Color, Technique, and The Customers, with the descriptions to plates 1-63 bound-in together, and, separately, descriptions for plates 64-126, with (pp 3) A Technical Report to Photographers, and final publisher's leaf. Complete with the loose folio booklet repeating the Captions (intended to facilitate easy reference). A tiny amount of marginal foxing to preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy. Amounting to a manifesto of the photographic "Decisive Moment", this the First Edition, was published simultaneously in France as Images a la Sauvette. Images 1-63 from France (including his photographs of Bonnard, Matisse, Sartre) the US - Capote, Faulkener - Germany, UK, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Images 64 -126 Asia - Pakistan and India, Indonesia, Burma, Singapore, China - Bejing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nankin - and the Middle East - Egypt, Iran. Seller Inventory # 20002

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About this Item: Verve/Simon Schuster, Paris / New York, 1952. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: without dj. Henri Cartier Bresson (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing: Hardcover in pictorial boards and dust jacket designed by Henri Matisse and very good 16 page captions booklet laid in. 126 full page black and white photographs printed in beautiful gravure. Binding loose - contact seller for pictures and more information. Seller Inventory # blb00101

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. 1st American edition. SIGNED by Cartier-Bresson on the title page. With captions booklet laid-in. Some bowing to boards. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities of boards and spine. Some darkening at spine and at external margins of boards. Light dampstain to lower edge of front board, not affecting interior. Tiny p.o. marking to front pastedown. Toning, mild soiling to price-clipped d.j. Large closed tear to lower edge of front panel at joint, extending into title. 2.5-inch closed tear to middle of d. spine at rear joint. Minor staining to rear panel, not affecting boards. Bumping and creasing to d.j. extremities with a few small closed tears. Inch long closed tears to both ends of d.j. spine at joints. VG/VG. Author. Seller Inventory # 3145675

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About this Item: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition (July, 1952 on copyright page), near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with the captions booklet laid in. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Seller Inventory # 1808004

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster in Collaboration with Éditions Verve, New York, 1952. Small folio. Decorated boards after a design by Matisse. Illustrated with 126 photographs (some double spread). An unusually nice copy, near fine, in slightly tanned dust jacket (replicating Matisse's design) with a few smudges at the extreme lower edges, a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panels, and a few short tears and a small creased snag at the edges of the rear panel. First edition, US issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12]pp. quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English. The design was undertaken by Teriade, with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang, and the photographs engraved and printed in heliogravure by Draeger Frères. This state of the dust jacket prints comments on the rear inner flap by Monroe Wheeler, Philippe Halsman, Jacob Deschin, et al. In his important introduction to this collection, one of the defining books in the field of photography from the immediate post WWII years, Cartier- Bresson sums up the principles that would inspire the work of countless photographers for the next half-century or more: "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment . To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression." The initial edition consisted of approximately 3000 French language copies and 7000 English language copies, and like any number of significant books, received highly positive reviews but sold only a slow trickle of copies. Because of the nature of the binding and dust jacket, copies in agreeable condition, as here, are few and far between. The first faithful reprint was finally published in late 2014. Seller Inventory # WRCLIT74001

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About this Item: Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Verve Editions, Paris, New York, 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 Henri Matisse, repeated design on jacket. Laid in, as issued, is the 12-page pamphlet The Decisive Moment - Captions. Seller Inventory # 31664

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About this Item: New York: Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris, 1952, 1952. Folio. Original decorated boards designed by Matisse. With the dust jacket and the booklet of captions laid in as required. Spine age toned, joints split about 3cm from the head, cream dust jacket a little darkened, rubbed and chipped to edges, foot of spine split, head of spine with small loss. First US edition, first printing. The photographer's finest and definitive collection of images. With the photographer's signed presentation inscription. "To Dick Schuler who gets brilliance out of our darkness Henri for Magnum HCB". The recipient Richard 'Dick' Schuler was a German emigre photographer and printer, and principal at Compo Photo-Color (Compo Photo Service inc.), a photographic lab in New York City who specialised in making exhibition prints and large photo-murals. Compo were responsible for printing a number of important exhibitions including Edward Steichen's 'The Family of Man' (1955) at the Museum of Modern Art, who frequently used the firm to make large exhibition prints. In his preface Cartier-Bresson writes, "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless." After 1946 Cartier-Bresson ceased printing his own photographs, preferring to spend his time taking photographs or drawing. Instead he relied on a series of expert printers whose work he would strictly supervise. In 1966 Cartier-Bresson retired from active participation in Magnum Photos, the cooperative agency he had co-founded in 1947. The inscription therefore suggests that this book was inscribed within fourteen years of its publication and represents high praise indeed for the recipient. Parr & Badger I, 208-9; Roth, p. 134. Seller Inventory # 92228

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