London. With ten photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith

€ 200 / 300

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London, Privately printed for Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edmund D. Brooks & their friends (Chiswick Press), 1914

8vo (endpapers brown.).

Publ. beige cloth spine with tan paper over boards. Good copy.

First edition of this sought-after photography book by one of the most famous names in American photography. With 10 photos of London reproduced in "mezzogravure" tipped onto ten leaves at the rear of the book after Chesterton's essay. With 2 modern postcards of London loosely enclosed.