Robert Capa
Death in the Making
Gerda Taro
Original 1938 Edition
Covici Friede Inc., New York. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the scarce dust
jacket. Quarto. Unpaginated. Captions by Robert Capa. Translated by Jay Allen.
Arrangement by Andre Kertesz. Scarce first edition of this remarkable
photographic history of the Spanish Civil War. In order to photograph the
horrors of the conflict, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro followed the Republican
battalions into perilous action and risked their lives daily. The result
gathered in this book is a collection of 145 stunning photographs. There was also a tragic consequence to the
photographers' intrepidity as Gerda Taro, Robert Capa's companion and
professional photography partner, was indeed killed in a Rebel counter-attack,
crushed by a tank, one year before the publication of this work. Her body lies
in Paris.
Good plus. Light wear to the boards. Heavy foxing to boards near the spine. Spine darkened. Scattered light foxing to edges of the boards. Internally, hinges sound. Darkening to the fold at the pastedowns and endpapers. Binding good. Text clean. Light tanning to page edges. Images
bright and clean. Amazing photography.
Very, very scarce.