THE FIRST PICTURE BOOK Everyday Things for Babies
by Edward Steichen and Mary Steichen Calderone (Afterword by John Updike)
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New York: N. Y. Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First Thus (In a limited edition of 250 copies) . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (68 pages, illustrated with 24 photographs by Edward Steichen). As-new, bound in quarter-blue morocco leather over pale blue cloth boards, in a limited edition of 250 unnumbered copies, signed by John Updike and Mary Steichen Calderone on the colophon page in pencil. Slipcased with an original Edward Steichen photogravure bound-in and another laid-in as a separate print in a self-contained folder. Originally published in 1930, this landmark volume, one of the first children's books to be illustrated with photographs, has been reproduced utilizing the same 24 marvelous Edward Steichen photographs of "everyday things," and the same preface written by his daughter, Mary Steichen Calderone, then-a leader in the progressive school movement. The significant addition is a new Afterword by John Updike. In mint condition, with all original printed descriptive matter laid-in.
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- Chartwell Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- THE FIRST PICTURE BOOK Everyday Things for Babies
- Author
- Edward Steichen and Mary Steichen Calderone (Afterword by John Updike)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus (In a limited edition of 250 copies)
- Publisher
- N. Y. Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo (68 pages, illustrated with
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