Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN and GEORGE SEELEY.
CAMERA WORK. Number 21 * CAMERA WORK. Number 29.
Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Together, 2 complete issues with a total of 26 plates, comprising 12 photogravures by Coburn in No. 21, and 10 photogravures by Seeley and 4 halftones by De Zayas in No. 29. 4tos, original printed gray wrappers, chipped and torn; text block intact but detached in No. 29.
New York, 1908 and 1911

Additional Details

From the Library of James Newberry.

The issues are originally from the Collection of Stieglitz's brother, Julius Stieglitz (1867-1937), a noted Chicago chemist and esteemed long-term faculty member at the University of Chicago. They were acquired from Hanzel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois in the late 1960s-early 1970s.