Bachelor Belles
by Fisher, Harrison (Illustrations by); Theodore B. Hapgood (Decorations by)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gilt-titled gray cloth with color plate mounted on front cover, with blue lettering and decoration on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Decorative title page. Collection of 24 exquisite poems celebrating womanhood and magnificently illustrated with 19 full-page color plates by Harrison Fisher. Poems by Thomas Heywood, Theophile Gautier, H. C. Brunner, Washington Irving, George Arnold, William Shakespeare, and more. Binding damp-stained and slightly rubbed along edges. Offsetting on endpapers. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34133
- Title
- Bachelor Belles
- Author
- Fisher, Harrison (Illustrations by); Theodore B. Hapgood (Decorations by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Women in literature, Poetry, American literature, First edition, Reference
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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