The First Picture Book. Everyday Things for Babies. With an Afterword by John Updike
Published by Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1991), N. Y., 1991
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since March 20, 1997
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 250.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Small 8vo, illustrated from photographs by Edward Steichen, original quarter blue morocco & cloth, separate print in folder, blue cloth slipcase. Fine copy. First edition with Updike's essay. A beautifully produced edition of Steichen's splendid series of photographs of simple objects and toys. One of 250 copies signed by Updike and Calderone, with an original photogravure bound in. The same image was included as a separate print in a folder in some copies; however, this copy, which came from Updike's library, does not include the separate print.
Seller Inventory # 19403
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The First Picture Book. Everyday Things for Babies. With an Afterword by John Updike
- Author
- [UPDIKE, John] STEICHEN, Edward & Mary Steichen CALDERONE
- Publisher
- Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1991), N. Y.
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine copy
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- 1017, 21587
James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA
Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
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CT, U.S.A.
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