Lartigue. Boyhood Photos of J.-H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Gilded Age.

Ami Guichard, 1966. 1st edition. Printed in Switzerland.  Text in English.  Issued when Lartigue's remarkable stop action photos from his youth in the early 1900s became widely exhibited and reproduced by the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.  Lartigue's snapshots of family and friends engaged in an astonishing variety of sometimes dangerous stunts involving aircraft, race cars, bicycles, and water helped establish the standard for the collecting of vernacular photography that subsequently became popular.  This 126-page hardcover, cloth-bound book with a photo of the photographer mounted on the front cover features heavy-weight pages with numerous tipped in half-tone photos and biographical texts about Lartigue and his wealthy family in Paris, France.  Fine except cover photo has been rubbed. Very clean copy.  A copy sold at the Photo-Eye book auction in 2006 for $210.  Not to be confused with later reprints that include an ISBN number.