GREAT PORTRAITS, As Seen and Described By Great Writers by Singleton, Edited by Esther

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1903. Hardcover. 47 b/w plates. Faint foxing, edgewear, beginning to hinge, rubbed spots on spine. Some dampstaining to top edge of last section, not interfering with text or illustrations. Gilt on front board still brilliant. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages; 28855 .

The Current Literature Publishing Co,, 1905-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1905 reddish hardcover. No DJ. Shelf wear and rubbing to covers and edges. Page are tanned, but quite readable.

Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: DODD, MEAD & CO. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1908.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good-. Copyright 1901.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899. 317 pages, plus plates. Highly decorative gilt stamped lettering and design on green cloth covers. Gilded top edge of text block. There is a lightly seen ink stamp of a masonic lodge seen on top edge of text block. A private library book plate is on the front paste down. Light rubbing at the lower edge of text block at outside corner. Volume remains tight, and is otherwise clean and attractive. . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. 317 pages, plus plates. Highly decorative gilt stamped lettering and design on green cloth covers. Gilded top edge of text block. There is a lightly seen ink stamp of a masonic lodge seen on top edge of text block. A private library book plate is on the front paste down. Light rubbing at the lower edge of text block at outside corner. Volume remains tight, and is otherwise clean and attractive. . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 366pp. Elaborate gilt decorated green cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good with hinges internally repaired, modest edgewear with rear board lightly faded.

Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; B&W Illustrations; 317 pages; Olive green hardcovers with gold design and lettering on front and spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. No ownership marks. Pages are clean and appear unmarked. Pages are lightly browning. No dust jacket. .

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing (October 1901). A handsome volume, in boards bound in three-quarter greenish turquoise leather with marbled-paper sides. Spine stamped in gilt with two raised bands. Spine toned. Marbled endpapers. Front endpaper has a small name label and a small area of surface damage where a bookplate has been removed. Small spot of soiling on copyright page, else interior fine. Complete with 32 illustrated plates. xii, 289 pages. 8.15 x 5.5 inches. An anthology of love stories and poems compiled by Esther Singleton (1865-1930), who endeavored to include as great a variety as possible of mood and expression in love. The collection includes work by, but not limited to, Jane Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Lord Byron, Thackeray, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, and Lewis Carroll. The pieces are accompanied by b/w illustrations by… Read More