May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(STEICHEN, EDWARD.)
The Family of Man.
Introduction by Edward Steichen. Prologue by Carl Sandburg. Abundantly illustrated with reproductions of photographs from Steichen's monumental exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. 4to, silver- and gilt-lettered blue paper over cloth with yellow, orange, and pink edges; in the original box with a photo-pictorial paper label. Parr/Badger II 218; Auer 358. special edition (published for the book-of-the-month club).
(New York): The Museum of Modern Art & Simon and Schuster, (1955)

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From the Library of Jean Feiwel and Barry Denenberg.