THE DECISIVE MOMENT

158 pages, black and white photographs, front and back hinges weak at endpapers, tape stains on endpapers, ownership signature on front free endpaper, f.f.e.p. creased, hardback, two dustjackets present, the first being foxed with some creases and tears, the second being a later printing with reviews on back flap, price-clipped

Includes 12 page booklet "The Decisive Moment / Captions"

Described by many as the most important and influential photobook of the twentieth century.  

From 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 (Images a la Sauvette) and the American Edition by Simon and Schister (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. It was completed the 22nd of July, 1952."