Famous Actors And Their Homes by Kobbe, Gustav

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettering & decoration on red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. 12mo, 222pp. Actors represented in the book are John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern and his wife, Virginia Harned, Francis Wilson, "The Lambs", and "The Players". Gift inscription on the second free end paper, spine ends and corners worn, contents fine. See also my listing of the matching Famous Actresses book.

Little, Brown, 1905. Cloth. Fair. Slightly smaller, heavier book, dark red cloth with ornate gilt design and gilt title at top front bright, gilt lettering very fine on spine, 222 photo paper pages. Light wear to inner front and back hinges inside covers and between adjacent end papers, tissue-covered b/w photo of man by Histed, dedicated to publisher Edward Bok, dedication page loose at bottom 2" next to spine. Actors included are John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E.H. Sothern and wife Virginia Harned, Francis Wilson, with chapters on two New York City hangouts of actors: The Lambs' Club at W. 36 Street and The Players at No. 16, Gramercy Park, among photos is one of Edwin Booth. Badly worn at bottom front tip, very slight wear to other three as well as spine top and bottom edges, profusely illustrated with photos, light brown stain to top of long pages' edge--pages otherwise not affected. Fair.

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Very Good. 1905 beautiful book illustrated red boards with Gold decorations high quality pages

Toronto, Canada: The Musson Book Company, 1905. 38 b/w illustrations. 222 pp. with water stains near top edges. Beige endpapers with stains along outer edges. Red cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly bumped, stains. VG.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/No dust jacket. 8vo. 222pp. illus. b&w photos. Illustrated with 63 plates made by John Andrew and Son, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Backgrounds, homes and careers of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Julia Marlowe, "Annie Russell, E. H. Sothern and His Wife, Virginia Harned, Francis Wilson, "The Lambs'", and "The Players." Published in part in 1903 under title "Famous actors & actresses and their homes." A beautiful copy.