A first edition copy of Bistrots, signed by all three contributors, deluxe edition out of 200 co🌊pies.

• Robert Doisneau (French).
• Jacques Prévert (French).
• Robert Giraud French).
• France: Souillac & Mulhouse, Le Point, 1960.
• 48 pages.
• Octavo.
• With black-and-white photographs by Doisneau printed in gravure.
• Number 23 of 200 copies on Velin d'Arches paper.
• Signed by Robert Doisneau, Jacques Prévert and Robert Giraud on the colophon.
• Bound in burgundy silk-covered boards, with spine and upper side stamped in gold, in publisher's acetate dust jacket.

Deluxe issue of 200 copies, this copy printed for "Monsieur Love." The ordinary edition was published as number 57 of the quarterly artistic and literary journal Le Point, this issue focusing on French bistros.

In praising the work of Robert Doisneau, whose evocative photographs “seem the perfect embodiment of Gallic wit and romance” (New York Times), MoMA curator John Szarkowski particularly singled out images Doisneau took for this 1960 edition of the French journal Le Point. In praising Doisneau’s photograph of “a potential seduction,” entitled “At the Café, Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris, 1958” (9), Szarkowski writes that “one is tempted to believe that even the painters of the 18th century never did the subject so well” (Looking at Photographs, 172). The 44 vibrant heliogravures seen here in Bistrots display the “characteristic warmth and humanity” (Parr & Badger I:201) that made Doisneau a leading figure of French humanist photography. Text in French; with a three-page facsimile of Jacques Prévert’s autograph manuscript for his poem “Gravures sur le Zinc,” Robert Giraud’s essay “Bistrots,” and photog🍸raphic captions by Doisneau.