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The first picture book : everyday things for babies / Mary Steichen Calderone, Edward Steichen ; with an afterword by John Updike.

Accession number
PML 187431
Creator
Calderone, Mary Steichen, 1904-1998.
Published
New York : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
1991 edition, first printing, issue with leather back. Cf. de Bellis and Broomfield.
"BookLab bound the edition of 250 copies"--Colophon.
Includes twenty-four offset lithographs and one hand-printed photogravure tipped in after page [66].
Description
65, [1] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by Mary Steichen Calderone and John Updike in graphite below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver and backed in blue morocco, housed in matching blue cloth slipcase as issued.
Classification
Department