Sélections sur Ondes Courtes by Pierre Mac Orlan - 1929

#548 of 700 copies in softcover vellum of important work in French on the social fantastic of urban life by noted French author Pierre Mac Orlan whose novel Quai des Brumes inspired Marcel Carne's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin. An influential critic of film and photography whose writings influenced Berenice Abbott, Mac Orlan was also a prolific writer of chansons, many of which were recorded and popularized by Juliette Greco, Monique Morelli, Catherine Sauvage and Germaine Montero. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Mac Orlan by Hoffmeister. Some wear to Protective tissue on cover.