Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

394 c   EDWARD STEICHEN. Steichen: The Photographer. Text by Carl Sandburg. With full-page reproductions of photographs by Steichen, including a self-portrait frontispiece and much of Steichen’s classical imagery, printed in handsome sepia tones. 4to, black cloth with the gilt-lettered title on the front cover; in the original slipcase, lightly worn and starting. Roth 54; Auer 143; Hasselblad 86. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 925 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY STEICHEN AND SANDBURG. (NewYork): Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929 [2,000/3,000] 395 c   WALKER EVANS. American Photographs. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Illustrated with reproductions of Evans’ photographs of the American social landscape. Small 4to, black boards with the cream paper title label, very clean and bright; with the errata sheet bound in, as usual; printed dust jacket, age-darkened, small chips. Roth 98; Parr/Badger I 114; Hasselblad 128;Auer 263. FIRST EDITION. (New York): The Museum of Modern Art, (1938) [800/1,200] With a signed 1946 letter from Lincoln Kirstein to David McKibbon laid in. 394 395