Vg, some spotting on cover, normal shelfwear, textblock fine; From title page, "--and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors together with choice selections from their writings embracing the great poets of America, our famous movelists, distinguished essayists and historians, our humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, statesmen in literature, noted women in literature, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lectures, etc. To which is added a description of American literature at the end of the [19th] century and the ten greatest books of the 19th century" In all, an effort at a compendious work up to the end of the 1800s in one volume; Many Photos and Engravings; 608 pp. pages

Literature Novelists Writers Journalists Short Story Writers Authors Historians Magazine Writers Women Literateurs