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Lot 138

WELLS (H.G.)
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories... Illustrated with Photogravures from Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn, NUMBER 50 OF 60 COPIES "for the United Kingdom, January 1915", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE COLOPHON, Grant Richards, [1911/15]

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WELLS (H.G.)

The Door in the Wall and Other Stories... Illustrated with Photogravures from Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn, NUMBER 50 OF 60 COPIES "for the United Kingdom, January 1915", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE COLOPHON, from an overall edition of 600, 10 tipped-in photogravure plates by Coburn, offsetting from plate to text but otherwise a fine copy, untrimmed in publisher's cloth-backed boards, titled in gilt on upper cover, printed label on spine, early brown wrappers keeping boards very clean [Wells 44], folio (375 x 283mm.), Grant Richards, [1911/15]

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ONE OF ONLY SIXTY COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER. Originally issued in an edition of 600 unsigned copies, printed on French handmade paper, in 1911, this copy is one of the scarce British issue copies with the Grant Richards imprint, signed above the handwritten limitation note facing the half-title. As stated on the list of plates "The photogravures in this volume are from plates prepared by the artist, and printed under his personal supervision".

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