Scarce book of portraits: Men of Mark by Alvin Langdon Coburn. First edition. London & New York: Duckworth & Mitchell Kinnerley, 1913. Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25. The volume features 33 photogravures of famous personalities by Coburn, "produced under the personal supervision of the artist." Among the subjects are George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Auguste Rodin, Henry James, John Signer Sargent, Theodore Roosevelt, W. B. Yeats, Mark Twain, Henri Matisse, and more, all with their facsimile signatures imprinted on the mounts. Book condition: VG/None.
