[Signed] The Decisive Moment CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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Large quarto, [16], 126, [12]pp., illustrated. A very good copy in a dust jacket with a 1/2 inch small hole in front panel along with 1/2 inch abrasion at the corner of the front panel. Faint stain on fore-edge of front panel of jacket not affecting the board. Spine tanned, front inner hinge starting after page 2 of introduction, Bad fray to the spine head.Inscribed by Cartier-Bresson in French on the title page ""Peter Pollack en souvenir d' une tres interesante conversation H Cartier-Bresson."" Pollack was a well respected museum curator and photographer. Laid in is an invitation to a members' only preview of a Cartier-Bresson exhibition and lecture at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts; the lecture is titled ""Forbears and Heirs of Cartier-Bresson by Peter Pollack, Honorary Advisor in Photography to the Worcester Art Museum"" [therecipient of the inscription]. Non-authorial inscription on the front panel ""To my true friend Pete from Dan (Christmas 1952)."" We presume Dan gifted the book to Peter Pollack, who then had it signed after his lecture. Additionally laid in is a 9 page quarto folder ""Decisive Moment Captions"" describing each photo in the text. Perhaps the photographer's most important book; quite uncommon signed.