signed first edition Hardcover
1929 · Berlin-Westend
by KRULL, Germaine
Berlin-Westend: Verlag der Reihe, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. First edition. Small quarto. 100 photo-engraved plates. Minor dampstains at the extremities, else near fine in a tattered, poor dust jacket. Housed in a cloth custom clamshell case. Lengthy Inscription by Krull to Stefan Lorant in German. At the time both photographers were already well-known for their work in photography, film, and photojournalism. With the rise of Nazism, Krull moved to Monte Carlo, then Africa, and finally Southeast Asia after the war, while Lorant, author of *I was Hitler's Prisoner*, emigrated to England (where he co-founded *Picture Post*) and then the United States (truncated)