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STEICHEN, Edward -- Steichen. The Photographer. Text by Carl Sandburg. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1929. 4º (314 x 238 mm). 49 full-page sepia photographs. (Edges and margins faintly and evenly yellowed.) Original black cloth, spine and covers lettered and ruled in gilt, publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase (slipcase with light rubbing at the corners and short splits near the aperture). Provenance: Hugo Knudsen (presentation inscription to:) -- Henry Seiler (possibly a printer working for Knudsen; ownership inscription).
FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL SLIPCASE: inscribed, possibly to one of his printers, by Hugo Knudsen, inventor and developer of the lithographic halftone printing process used for the reproductions in this book. The process, still in use today, was then the best method of reproduction. This sumptuous book 'includes a broad and cleverly sequenced array of Steichen's work... When the book was published Steichen was probably the most famous and best paid photographer in America' (101 Books). One of 925 copies signed by Steichen and Sandburg, this one out-of-series. ABPC records only two others in the original slipcase. 101 Books, pp.54-7; The Open Book, pp.86-7; Regards à travers le livre 4 ('magnificent photographs').
FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL SLIPCASE: inscribed, possibly to one of his printers, by Hugo Knudsen, inventor and developer of the lithographic halftone printing process used for the reproductions in this book. The process, still in use today, was then the best method of reproduction. This sumptuous book 'includes a broad and cleverly sequenced array of Steichen's work... When the book was published Steichen was probably the most famous and best paid photographer in America' (101 Books). One of 925 copies signed by Steichen and Sandburg, this one out-of-series. ABPC records only two others in the original slipcase. 101 Books, pp.54-7; The Open Book, pp.86-7; Regards à travers le livre 4 ('magnificent photographs').
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