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Title: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (photogravures)

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Title: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (photogravures) Title Record # 1065785
Author: Alvin Langdon Coburn
Date: 1911-00-00
Type: INTERIORART
Language: English
Note:
  • The 1911 collection of 8 stories was published in a limited edition of 600 copies, 540 as Mitchell Kennerley (New York) and 60 as Grant Richards (London).
  • "illustrated with photogravures from photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn" (title page)
  • From WorldCat record OCLC 3132125 as Grant Richards [1911] (London): -- 10 mounted illustrations -- "The photogravures in this volume are from plates prepared by the artist, and printed under his personal supervision"--Leaf a4r. 60 copies from Grant Richards, January 1915 (a second printing?), were signed by both Wells and Coburn.
  • Library of Congress LCCN 12-2683 reports concerning its Copy 3 as Mitchell Kennerley (New York): (quote) Printed label on front pastedown: "Unfortunately, only three hundred sets of the illustrations were completed by the gravure process so that the missing illustrations are reproduced in this volume by the Aquatone process." In this copy the illustration mounted on p. [131] is reproduced by the Aquatone process. (end quote)
  • Library of Congress recently catalogues also a "Suite of illustrations", LCCN 2014-660563 -- "ten mounted photogravures with pencilled captions ..."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1911-11-00 H. G. Wells Mitchell Kennerley  
$7.50?$: US dollar
153
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1911-11-00 H. G. Wells Grant Richards     153
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1915-01-00 H. G. Wells Grant Richards     153
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1980-00-00 H. G. Wells David R. Godine 0-87923-326-5   157
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1980-07-00 H. G. Wells David R. Godine 0-87923-327-3
$5.95?$: US dollar
157
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 2013-08-01 H. G. Wells Bottom of the Hill Publishing 978-1-4837-0288-9
$8.99?$: US dollar
106
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
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