Portraits Of The Eighteenth Century Historic And Literary. Part I

G. P. Putnam' Sons. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates. X, 475 Pp. Dark Blue Linen, Gilt. First American Printing. Light Wear, Spine Gilt Weak, Front Hinge Cracked Before Frontispiece. Ownership Stamp "Cobina" On Front Free Endpaper, Almost Certainly That Of Cobina Wright Sr. Cobina Wright, Sr. (Born Esther Ellen Cobb, 1887 - 1970) Was An American Opera Singer And Actress Who Appeared In The Razor's Edge (1946). She Gained Later Fame As A Hostess And A Syndicated Gossip Columnist. Wright Was Also Known As Esther Cobb, Esther Johnson, And Esther Cobina.. Her First Husband, Whom She Married In 1912, Was American Novelist Owen Johnson. Her Second Husband Was William May Wright, A Stockbroker, By Whom She Had One Child, A Daughter, Cobina Carolyn Wright (Aka Cobina Wright Jr.), (1921-2011), Briefly A Movie Actress. In The Early Part Of The 20Th Century, She Was A Coloratura Soprano, Using The Stage Name Esther Cobina. She Had Studied Singing In California, Under Voice Teacher Nettie Snyder, And In Germany, Where She Initially Pursued Her Career On Stage. During World War I, She Performed For French And American Troops In Europe.[10] She Later Made Her American Opera Debut At Carnegie Hall In 1924. She Died In Los Angeles, California In 1970