Edward Steichen and Mary Steichen Calderone

Edward Steichen and Mary Steichen Calderone

The First Picture Book Everyday Things for Babies

signed in pencil by Mary Steichen Calderone and John Updike (on the justification page)

the complete book, comprising 24 offset lithographs and one photogravure on wove paper, bound (as issued), contained in the original blue fabric-covered portfolio

overall: 8⅝ by 7⅜ by ⅞ in. (22 by 18,9 by 2.1 cm.)

Executed in 1930 and published in 1991; this work is from the edition of 250, published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art.