ALVIN LANGDON COBURN

ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
(Boston 1882–1966 Rhos-on-Sea)London. With an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. With 20 mounted original photographs.Photogravures. Vintages. London, Duckworth & Co. and New York, Brenano's, (1909). Book size 41.5 × 31.6 cm; the prints of slightly varying sizes, each approx. 21 × 16.6 cm (1 different, 23.4 × 12 cm). 21 pp., (1) blank leaf. Original half leather binding with gold stamped title on cover.Each 21 × 16.6 cm (1 different 23.4 × 12 cm).Koetzle, p. 78 - cf. Parr/Badger I, 74. - First edition. - 'Coburn is all Impressionist hustle and bustle: Pissarro or Monet with a camera. (…) Smoke and steam often appear in Coburn’s New York pictures, as they do in his famous view of St Paul’s, in the London book.' (Parr/Badger). - The front joint of the binding broken, the spine cover fragmentary, scuff marks. The interior well preserved.