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Bachelor Belles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good to Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (G&D), 1908. Book. Illus. by Harrison Fisher (decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood). Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. Large octavo. A collection of poems by apparently lovestruck victims of hormonal activity, with 19 truly lovely paintings by Fisher. Contains "The Message" (Thomas Heywood), "An Invitation" (Theo?phile Gautier), "Disdain" (Elizabethan Francis Davison), "Da Capo" (H.C. Bunner), "A Certain Young Lady" (Washington Irving), "Avice" and "Youth" (Austin Dobson), "The Golden Fish" (George Arnold), "Sunlight" (Arthur O'Shaughnessy), "A Woman's Shortcomings" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), "My Sweetheart's Faults" (Harry B. Smith), "Swimming Song" (Theodore Wratislaw), "Oh, Mistress Mine" (William Shakespeare), "The White Flag" (John Hay), "To Celia" (E.H. Lacon Watson, "In the Wood" (Herbert E. Clarke), "A Song" (Norman R. Gale), "If" (Robert, Lord Lytton), "When I Loved You" and "The Quarrel" (Thomas Moore), "A Health" (Edward Coate Pinkney), "Little Girly-girl" (James Whitcomb Riley), and "Indecision" and "Why, Lovely Charmer" (a pair by history's most prolific writer, Anonymous). Cream cloth w/tipped-on illustration, grey lettering/decoration to spine, unpaginated (90). Moderately cocked w/bumped/worn corners/spine ends, some soil/smudging to covers, dusty edges..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019386
- Title
- Bachelor Belles
- Illustrator
- Harrison Fisher (decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st thus.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap (G&D)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- Large octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Thomas Heywood, Theo?phile Gautier, Elizabethan Francis Davison, H.C. Bunner, Washington Irving, Austin Dobson, George Arnold, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harry B. Smith, Theodore Wratislaw, William Shakespeare, John Hay,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays & Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Augustine Funnell Books
Postage extra. All items returnable within seven days of receipt for full refund if received by us in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Augustine Funnell Books
Biblio member since 2003
Fredericton, New Brunswick
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