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Door in the Wall Photos by Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Title: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
Author: Wells, H.G.
Description: 153, [1] pp. 10 tipped-in hand-pulled photogravure plates printed under the supervision of the photographer. (Folio) 14½x11¼, original cloth-backed boards, title in gilt on front board, paper title label on spine. One of 600 copies printed on French hand-made paper.Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) was a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.
Heading: zzh(Coburn, Alvin Langdon)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley
Date Published: 1911

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