THE YOUNGER SET

New York: A. L. Burt Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Hardcover 1907, no dustjacket (as issued). Cover has light soiling, fading and some spotting to spine, light soiling/foxing to outer edge of pages. Corner bumping and light edgewear, tiny tears to some corners. Pages are all intact, with occasional light soiling, light creasing of some pages, last few pages have a small edge tear. Age tanning to pages and covers. Historical romantic fiction. ; 8vo; 513 pages; Robert W. Chambers (May 26, 1865-December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer. Robert entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and at Julian's, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (1864). His most famous effort has to be The King in Yellow, a collection of weird fiction short stories, connected by the theme of a terrible play (to which the title refers) which drives those who read it insane. Apparently favouring sales and popularity over artistic merit, Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines. (525,0315) .