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Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]

Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]

Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]
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Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]

by Sandburg, Carl (Text by); Edward Steichen (Photographs by)

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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good to near fine condition. 648/925 signed by Sandberg and Steichen on colophon. Folio. 70pp. Unpaginated part with photogravure plates. Original black cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photogravure. First major monograph devoted to Steichen with fourty-nine photogravures, incl. frontispiece. Extraordinary portraits of Gloria Swanson, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, Isadora Duncan, the iconic portrait of Greta Garbo, to name a few, plus still lives, nature shots, and a variety of other scenarios, incl. advertising. Lacking slipcase. Binding with some wear along edges, some fraying at bottom corner at foredge, lesser at top and tail of spine. Horizontal tear through leaf with pages 23 and 24, no loss of text. Block with some age-toning, not affecting images. Binding in overall good, images in near fine condition.

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Bookseller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller US (US)
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Title
Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]
Author
Sandburg, Carl (Text by); Edward Steichen (Photographs by)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good to near fine condition
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Limited edition
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1929
Keywords
German photography, advertising photography, portrait photography, nature photography, pictorialism, camera works, stieglitz, fashion photography, vogue,

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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.

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Colophon
The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges
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Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Folio
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Cloth
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Tail
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