Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 348

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
STEINBERG, SAUL. All in Line * The Art of Living. Together, 2 volumes Inscribed by Steinberg to Monroe Wheeler. Illustrated with reproductions of Steinberg's line drawing cartoons. 4to, cloth; dust jackets; glassine outer jacket over first title. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1945); Harper & Brothers, (1949)

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first editions, each inscribed and signed by steinberg to monroe wheeler in the year of publication, the first with an original pen drawing on the half-title. Beneath the inscription beginning "To Monroe Wheeler with . . ." Steinberg drew a self-portrait tipping his hat to indicate "compliments." The Art of Living bears a warm inscription of friendship on the title-page.