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.