RALPH STEINER (1899-1986) A portfolio enitled Ralph Steiner Portfolio II, Early & Late. With 7 (of 14) lyrical, abstract photographs spanning a few decades of the photographer's career. Silver prints, the images measuring 3 3/4x4 3/4 to 6 3/4x9 inches (9.5x12.1 to 17.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Steiner's signature and dates, in pencil, on verso and on the overmat. Folio-sized tan linen clamshell box, with a cartoonish black-stamped drawing of the photographer; Steiner's signature and edition notation 2, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED SETS. Thetford, Vermont: Self-published, 1924-80; printed 1980-81
