American Beauties
first edition Hardcover
1909 · Indianapolis, Ind
by Fisher, Harrison
Indianapolis, Ind: Bobbs Merrill, 1909. First. Hardcover. VG+ (clean and tight text block - no marks, sunning, foxing, stains, tears, wrinkles, folds; one gallery owner stamp on lower title page); very slight wear and faint darkening to edges of cloth in a few places.. Fisher, Harrison. Copper cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt lettering on cover; blind-stamp lettering on spine; unpaginated with 93 pp., including 21 fully-illustrated plates and text pages with decorative borders. The famous Fisher Girl faces were featured on magazine covers and in books as the ideal woman at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Included here are 21 full-page plates, some rarely seen, with Fisher's poetic verse accompanying each on the page opposite. Each page of text features complementary Art-Nouveau decorative borders by E. Crawford Stetson. (Inventory #: 140756)