The First Picture Book Everything Things for Babies (Signed Limited Edition).
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First edition thus. Hardcover. One of only 250 copies with text set by Michael & Winifred Bixler in Monotype Walbaum and printed by letterpress at Wild Carrot. An attractive new edition of this classic book that was first published in 1930. Features an introduction by Harriet M. Johnson and an afterword by John Updike. Includes 24 offset lithographs and a bound in photogravure. Signed by both John Updike and Mary Steichen Calderone and with an additional copy of the same original photogravure laid in. A very near fine copy in blue cloth boards with blue morocco spine that is ever so slightly sunned and in a very near fine cloth covered slipcase. The additional photogravure is in fine condition.
Item #213614
Price: $500.00