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[COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON, Photographer]. WELLS, H.G. The Door in the Wall. New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911. 10 mounted prints from photographs by Coburn. Folio, original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered on upper over, printed paper spine label, uncut, some wear and soiling. LIMITED EDITION, one of 600 copies printed on French hand-made paper. With mounted statement on pastedown which mentions, of the 600 copies printed "only three hundred sets of the illustrations were complete, so that there remain three hundred copies of the book lacking one or more illustrations, of which this is a copy. The text is perfect." This copy, however, contains all 10 illustrations listed on the contents page, and therefore presumably belongs to the 300 which are complete. It was for this work that Frederick W. Goudy designed his Kennerley Type.