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Seller's Description:
First edition, 1950. Original edition, one of only 50 numbered 1 to 50, this number 36. 54 pages of text in French with unnumbered pages of 80 black and white photographs on glossy paper. Scarce book on organised crime tatoos written by Jacques Delarue, Inspecteur a la Direction des Services de Police judiciaire de la Surete nationale, and signed and inscribed by him to his friend, Rex (sounds like a Scotland Yard detective to me). Also with 80 line-designs by Delarue on the margins of the text. Endpages a little foxed. Lacking dustjacket, and with paper fraying to front and rear spine gutters. Very collectible, very scarce.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good + in Very Good jacket. Wonderful study of the tattoos of the Paris underworld, in particular the criminal underworld. Clean and VG+ in its beige boards, with light wear to the front inner hinge. And in a crisp, VG example of the pictorial dustjacket, with light chipping and creasing--and several small closed tears--along the panel edges. Still though, attractive and very presentable. 80 crisp black-and-white photos of the men and their tattoos, 11 of which were taken by the great French photographer Robert Doisneau.
