Hardbound 4:o (300 x 230 mm.) in original gray linen cloth binding with title in black on spine and front board. Top edge blue. No dust jacket, as issued. Rear panel with a couple of insignificant spots. Clean and fresh inside. A truly fine copy ! XIX (foreword by PaulMorand + index) + doublepaged map of Paris + 256 photographs in wonderfully printed reproductions. To a large extent the photographs are by Mario Bucovich, but 23 are by the famous modernist photographer Germaine Krull.
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) was born i Germany but worked in France most of her life. She was one of the earliest to photograph industrial architecture with a modernist eye. In 1928 Germaine Krull published Metal, a portfolio containing 64 plates of industrial structures throughout Europe.