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Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition in this format of a 1930 publication. Afterword by John Updike. Quarter morocco and cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 250 copies Signed by Updike and Calderone. Original photogravure by Steichen bound in, as well as another print of the same image in a folder. Additionally Inscribed by Updike: "for Herb a tasty item with every good wish, John 1/28/92." Herb Yellin was the founder and publisher of Lord John Press and the most frequent of Updike's fine press collaborators. He named his press after noting that the list of authors he wanted to publish all shared the same first name, chief among them John Updike, his favorite. *Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu* became the press's first book in 1977 with 10 more to follow over the next 23 years. Yellin's friendship with Updike grew with each new limited edition benefitting his already enormous Updike collection, with Updike himself contributing copies of new editions of his books - often inscribed. In a 2010 interview with Yellin he noted that Updike ".liked that if anything ever happened to his own collection, he had my collection on the opposite side of the country." A notable association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Steichen, Edward. First edition thus, with Updike's essay, of a 1930 publication, limited to 250 copies signed by Updike and Mary Steichen Calderone. Illustrated with original photogravure by Steichen bound-in and another copy of the photo laid-in; 66 pp. Square 8vo. Half morocco with blue cloth boards, embossed in silver, with matching slipcase. Fine Illustrated with original photogravure by Steichen bound-in and another copy of the photo laid-in; 66 pp. Square 8vo First edition thus, with Updike's essay, of a 1930 publication, limited to 250 copies signed by Updike and Mary Steichen Calderone.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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. First Thus (In a limited edition of 250 copies). 8vo (68 pages, illustrated with 24 photographs by Edward Steichen)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.