May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN.
Men of Mark.
Complete with 33 photogravures after Coburn's iconic portraits of well-known figures, including George Bernard Shaw, Henri Matisse, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt. Two of the portraits with notations, in pencil, in the lower margin initialed by a "GM." The second, under W.D. Howells humorously reads "Indigestion after swallowing Henry James." Tall 4to, linen-backed gilt-lettered cloth, scattered soiling. FIRST EDITION.
London & New York: Duckworth & Co. & Mitchell Kennerley, 1913