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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (James M. Barrie). Photogravure Portrait of J. M. Barrie. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXIV in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 9" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Barrie's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. Portrait is in fine condition, mount is notched at spine where once bound else fine. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows the formally dressed J. M. Barrie directly facing the camera, dressed in dark suitcoat and tie, shown from the shoulders up, intensely staring at the camera.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (John Galsworthy). Photogravure Portrait of John Galsworthy. [Duckworth], [London], 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXIII in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Galsworthy's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"), the portrait and mount are in fine condition. Portrait is in fine condition, mount is notched at spine where once bound else fine. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Galsworthy directly facing the camera.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (Max Weber). Photogravure Portrait of Max Weber. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXVII in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.5" x 9.5" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Weber's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. Portrait is in fine condition, mount is notched at spine where once bound else fine. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Weber with his eyes averted dressed in an overcoat and scarf.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (Frank Brangwyn). Photogravure Portrait of Frank Brangwyn. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate IV in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Brangwyn's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. Portrait is in fine condition, mount is notched at spine where once bound, else fine. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Brangwyn holding a cup and staring into the distance.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (William Nicholson). Photogravure Portrait of William Nicholson. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XX in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 8.5" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Nicholson's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. Portrait is in fine condition, mount is notched at spine where once bound, else fine. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Nicholson in profile.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (John Masefield). Photogravure Portrait of John Masefield. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXIX in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.25" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Masefield's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Wells facing the camera with his head tilted. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"). A few light spots of foxing, near fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (Robert Bridges). Photogravure Portrait of Robert Bridges. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXXII in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 7.25" x 9.25" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Bridges' signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Bridges in profile. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"). A little foxing confined mostly to the lower right margin, else fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (G.K. Chesterton). Photogravure Portrait of G.K. Chesterton. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate II in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 7.75" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Chesterton's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Chesterton from the chest up, looking to his left. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"). Fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (Clarence H. White). Photogravure Portrait of Photographer Clarence White. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XVIII in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 9" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing White's signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows White from the chest up. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"), a little foxing on the image, near fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (H.G. Wells). Photogravure Portrait of H.G. Wells. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate VI in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Wells' signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Wells facing the camera with his head tilted. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"). Fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. (W.D. Howells). Photogravure Portrait of William Dean Howells. Duckworth, [London, 1913.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original photogravure issued as Plate XXVI in Alvin Langdon Coburn's *Men of Mark.* Portrait measures circa 6.75" x 8.75" with the photogravure tipped onto publisher's printed mount as issued which measures 9" x 12", and reproducing Howells' signature in holograph facsimile in lower margin as issued. The photogravure, in rich dark tones, shows Chesterton from the chest up, looking to his right. Archivally matted (measures 12" x 16"). Fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Coburn, Alvin Langdon. Men of Mark. London: Duckworth & Co; New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913, 1913.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Description: Small folio, tan cloth spine with beige cloth over boards, title and author gilt-stamped on upper cover. [8]-30 pp., 33 photogravure plates. First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn's work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who-"Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of me than anything else"-gave Coburn a list of prominent people to photograph in Britain. The photographer first reached out to George Bernard Shaw (whose portrait opens the book), and through his friendship with Shaw met many other important figures. It became a long-term undertaking, undoubtedly both satisfying and exciting Coburn's self-described "urge" to photograph those artists whom he admired: "I have always been deeply interested in consummation in the arts, and I think this was the chief reason why I began making photographic portraits. If I admired the writings or expressed vision of any person, I was impelled by the desire to meet and photograph him.My portraits are a recording of my appreciation of the artistic achievement of the times in which I have lived" (Coburn). To that end, this volume contains portraits of such giants as Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Max Weber, W.B. Yeats, Henri Matisse, Mark Twain, Roger Fry, Auguste Rodin, and others. Coburn "was the most important American photographer of his generation to expend significant energy on illustrating books" and "expressed rare versatility in his facility at landscape and city views, while at the same time making penetrating portraits" (The Truthful Lens, p. 37). After receiving his first Kodak at the age of eight, Coburn rose to prominence in his late teens and by his mid-twenties had established a friendship with George Bernard Shaw, who introduced the catalogue of his solo show at the Royal Photographic Society in 1907 by calling him "one of the most accomplished and sensitive artist-photographers now living." Coburn traveled extensively in America and Europe, and was granted membership in the British Linked Ring as well as the American Photo-Secession, both groups at the forefront of establishing and exploring photography as a fine art and including such giants as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. He collaborated with several literary figures (including Henry James), was one of the first to experiment in semi-abstract and abstract photography (Ezra Pound called Coburn's technique of using mirrors to fracture and duplicate images "vortography," alluding to its Vorticist inspiration), and had important shows throughout the United States and Britain (including two solo-exhibitions at Stieglitz's New York gallery) into the 1920s. In 1930 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, although by that time Coburn's interest in mysticism, druidism, metaphysics, and freemasonry (ignited years earlier by a friendship with photographer George Davison) had come to supersede his fascination with photography. REFERENCES: The Truthful Lens 37; Foster, Sheila J., et al. Imagining Paradise : The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester, p. 236; Coburn, Alvin Langdon, Alvin Langdon Coburn : Photographer : An Autobiography, pp. 24-42. CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at corners, lower left corner bumped, head of spine and top edge of lower cover slightly dented, small light brown stain on lower cover, tissue guards toned, two of them with short tears, and a few others creased. Overall, an unusually clean, bright copy.

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

Alvin Langdon Coburn. Men of Mark (1913). Duckworth & Company, London, 1913.

Price: US$3999.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Printed at the Ballantyne Press in London. Excellent condition for the year. Minor smudging, scratches, and fading to covers. Hinges and binding tight. All 33 photogravure plates are included and in great condition.

Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon.. Men of Mark.. London & New York Duckworth & Co and Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.

Price: US$4537.50 + shipping

Description: First edition; 4to (304 x 238 mm, 12 x 9¼ in); 33 tipped-in photogravures from plates prepared by Coburn, with the subject's facsimile signatures in the margins, light spotting and cockling to top edge, guards toned, occasional light wear, one with a short tear; endpapers browned, linen-backed grey cloth, titles to the front in gilt; printed dust-jacket, toned, spine slightly darkened, rubbing to lower panel, edges chipped, a near-fine copy in a very good example of the scarce dust-jacket; 29, [1], [66]pp. Alvin Langdon Coburn began gathering these portraits in 1904 when, shortly before sailing to London, he asked Perrirton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine of New York, for a list of authors and artists to photograph during his visit. Coburn's first sitter was George Bernard Shaw, who was particularly helpful in making introductions to potential subjects on Coburn's behalf, and the two became friends. Other sitters include Frank Brangwyn, H. G. Wells, Auguste Rodin, Henry James, Arthur Symons, Theodore Roosevelt, W. B Yeats, Mark Twain, Clarence H. White, Roger Fry, and Henri Matisse. The portraits are reproduced chronologically, the photogravures printed under Coburn's supervision on his own press. The day, month, and year for each sitter are included in the index, with Coburn insisting that these facts added a 'very considerable interest to a portrait considered as a "human document."' The Truthful Lens 37; Imagining Paradise p236.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

[PHOTOGRAPHY] COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON.. Men of Mark. London and New York: Duckworth/ Kennerley, 1913, 1913.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Certainly the best copy we've seen: aside from minute cloth spots and offsetting on the front and rear free endpapers from binder's glue on the pastedowns, a fine copy. Inscribed by the photographer, 'To Dr & Mrs C.G. Johnson in appreciation from Mr & Mrs Alvin Langdon Coburn/ 2.2. 1942.' Reportedly, Coburn printed only 300 copies of the photogravure portraits on his own press. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Men of Mark (Signed First Edition). Duckworth & Co, London, 1913.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Coburn's first book of portraits. Features a long text by Coburn. A collection of 33 tipped in photogravure plates with facsimile signatures of the subjects. Includes images of George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, George Meredith, H.G. Wells, August Rodin, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, W.B. Yeats, Mark Twain, Max Weber, Henry Matisse, and 22 others. A very good plus copy in cloth boards with some toning to the endpapers, the tissue guards have the usual toning and also have a number of tears, some creases, and wear. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Signed and nicely inscribed by Coburn on the front free endpaper in 1944. Uncommon thus.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Men of Mark. Duckworth & Co, London, 1913.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Coburn's first book of portraits. Features a long text by Coburn. A collection of 33 tipped in photogravure plates with facsimile signatures of the subjects. Includes images of George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, George Meredith, H.G. Wells, August Rodin, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, W.B. Yeats, Mark Twain, Max Weber, Henry Matisse, and 22 others. A clean and bright near fine copy in cloth boards with some bumping to the corners, some toning to the endpapers, the tissue guards have the usual toning and also have some minor wear and some tears and in a very good plus dust jacket that has a large chip from the base of the spine and some other smaller chips and tears. Laid in is a four page prospectus/order form for this book that includes a list of the plates, list of other books. Prospectus is in near fine condition with a couple of small checks to the plate list. A very nice copy in the very uncommon dust jacket and with a scarce piece of related ephemera.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Men of Mark. Duckworth & Co. / Mitchell Kennerley, London / New York, 1913.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Introduction by Coburn. Quarto. Original beige cloth gilt. 33 tipped-in monochrome photogravure plates, each with the subject's signature in facsimile and a tissue guard. Corners a little bumped, tissue guards toned and one with a tear, but a very near fine copy in the rare dustwrapper, also very near fine with tiny nicks and the slightest of edgewear. Portraits of artists and authors including George Meredith, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Auguste Rodin, Roger Fry, William Dean Howell, Clarence H. White, Henri Matisse, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Frank Brangwyn, William Butler Yeats, Robert Bridges, and others.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.