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Davis, Richard Harding : About Paris

Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1895

Original publisher's light blue cloth binding. 5 1/8" x 7 1/2." 219 pages, complete. Twenty-nine black and white illustrations, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt decorative emblem of a ship on front cover. Former ownership bookplate with illustration of purple flowers on front pastedown: "Found in Florence Hawkins Books." Pages are clean; binding is tight. This is an informational book on French culture. Chapters included the following: "The Streets of Paris," "The Show-Places of Paris--Night," "Paris in Mourning" (which addresses the assassination of President Carnot), "The Grand Prix and Other Prizes," and "Americans in Paris." Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a writer and journalist who became well-known for being the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, and World War I. Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) was an American graphic artist best-known for his creation of the "Gibson girl," an iconic representation of the independent woman at the turn of the twentieth century.. Illustr.: Gibson, Charles Dana. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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