Author: McCUTCHEON, George Barr
Title: Beverly of Graustark
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Small 8vo. Green cloth with Harrison Fisher plate of Victorian gal tipped to front cover. vi, 357pp. Frontispiece, four full-page color plates. Very good. Slight bit of binding edgewear and couple of small ink-type drops on front board; nonauthorial Christmas presentation card of this hot-off-the-press title tipped to frontispiece verso; ownership signature/address penned large on front flyleaf. Overall a tight, quite decent first edition and internally bright and clean, with glorious Fisher color plates. McCutcheon (1866-1928), elder brother of the noted Chicago editorial cartoonist, was a Chicago fiction sensation, cranking out bestsellers such as this, "Brewster's Millions" (1902), "A Fool and His Money" (1913) and others in the first two decades of the 20th century. .

Keywords: HARRISON FISHER American Literature


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