Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés. Fotografie en tekst Ed van der Elsken.

First edition. Love at the Left Bank, a love story invented by Ed VAN DER ELSKEN, with 216 black & white photos mostly of the Australian artist Vali MYERS (1930-2003) he made in some Parisian streets and bars, also frequented by outsiders around 1950. Designed by Jurriaan Schrofer, who called it a “beeldroman” (“a photo-novel”). With this publication, also published in English (somewhat censored) and German in 1956, the young Dutch photographer became internationally known.

Lit.: Boom/Suermondt, Photography between covers, pages 92/93, Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pages 146/47, Hasselblad, The Open Book, pp. 168/69, Parr/Badger, The Photobook, a History, vol. I, 245, Auer, 802 photo books from the M. + M. Auer collection, n°: 363, Gierstberg/ Suermondt, The Dutch Photobook, pp 48/49 & Heiting, Dutch photo publications 1918-1980, pp. 436-443.

• Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, [1956].
• 4to (270 x 190 mm.) (112) pp.
• Black cloth-covered boards and an illustrated dust jacket, title in white. Near-fine copy.