Bachelor Belles

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+. 1908. Early Reprint; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a tall hardback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has a rectangular pictorial pastedown in Very Good condition. There is one very small chip to the top edge of the pictorial pastedown, along with several small / faintish spots of foxing. There is a tiny bit of bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are illustrated with decorations and there are spots of foxing on them. This book includes a group of previously published poems (mostly) , side by side with some of Harrison Fisher's famous illustrations of young women. "Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. Fisher spent much of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at the San Francisco Art Association. In California he studied with Amédée Joullin. In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work. He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson. Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, "Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow. Fisher's work appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine from the early 1900s until his death. " (from Wikipedia) .