Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Esquisse d'un Portrait de la Marocaine

NP: NP, ND (ca 1955). Limited edition. Softcover. Large quarto. [16]pp (text), 5 loose photographic plates, 8 illustrated loose plates. Original illustrated stiff paper portfolio. This stunning work on Moroccan women contains five remarkable b/w photographs by Bernard Rouget, the renowned French photographer who spent 34 years in Morocco, showing Moroccan women and girls in traditional dress. The photographs are silver gelatin prints. They are accompanied by an essay written by François Bonjean and 8 exquisite pen and ink drawings by Edy Legrand. No record of this work on OCLC. This portfolio is No. 18 of an unknown number of copies, and was specially printed for Mr. Charles Cabos. Moderate shelf wear and sporadic closed tears along edges of portfolio. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Portfolio in overall fair to good, interior in very good condition. g. Item #34496

Price: $450.00