The Passport. By Saul Steinberg. LONDON : 1954.

Hamish Hamilton, 1954. First British Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 13 x 10.5 Inches Tall. Illustrated by the Author.. FIRST UK EDITION. LONDON : 1954. [ Same year as the American edition, Harper and Brothers, New York.]. Hardback. Illustrated by the Author. Red cloth spine; black lettered. Grey pictorial paper-covered boards. No owner name or internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. Minor use only. VERY GOOD INDEED. SAUL STEINBERG (June 15, 1914 - May 12, 1999) was an American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Steinberg was born in Romania to a family of Jewish descent. In 1932, he entered the University of Bucharest. In 1933, he enrolled at the Polytechnic University of Milan to study architecture; he received his degree in 1940. In 1936, he began contributing cartoons to the humour newspaper Bertoldo. Two years later, the anti-Semitic racial laws promulgated by the Fascist government forced him to start seeking refuge in another country. In 1941, he fled to the Dominican Republic, where he spent a year awaiting a US visa. By then, his drawings had appeared in several US periodicals; his first contribution to The New Yorker was published in October 1941. Steinberg arrived in New York City in July 1942; within a few months he received a commission in the US Naval Reserve and was then seconded to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He worked for the Morale Operations division in China, North Africa, and Italy. Shipped back to Washington in 1944, he married the Romanian-born painter Hedda Sterne. Folio; approx. 13.5 x 11 inches. **Heavy; extra postage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. Now quite SCARCE.