May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(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, rubbed, spine sunned, joints tender. Parr/Badger II 218; Auer 358. first edition, signed and inscribed by steichen.
(New York): The Museum of Modern Art & Simon and Schuster, (1955)