Crosby Raymond Moreau 1876 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. R.M. Crosby [Raymond Moreau, 1876-1945] (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. [10]1-357p. Black and white frontispiece drawing with tissue guard plus 4 other full-page black and white drawings by R.M. Crosby Green cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine and with a gilt cartouche containing the title on the front cover. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean, gilt bright, all illustrations in fine condition, tissue guard intact, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Born in Harrodsburg, KY in 1972, Maria Thompson Daviess was an artist and author. After a year of study at Wellesley College, Daviess studied art in Paris before returning to Nashville, where she took up writing. She published sixteen novels between 1909 and 1920, including MISS SELINA LEE AND THE SOAPBOX BABES (1909), THE MELTING OF MOLLY (1912), SEVEN TIMES SEVEN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY(1924), as well as others. ANDREW THE GLAD appears to be her seventh novel. Raymond Moreau Crosby [1976-1945] was an illustrator and print maker who provided story art and occasional covers for Life, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Woman's Home Companion, as well as numerous books.

[Bütten-Karton (36x48cm) gebräunt und an den Ränern leicht knickfaltig.] Raymond Moreau Crosby was an illustrator and print maker, providing story art and occasional covers for Life, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Home Companion. Also numberous book illustrations. Moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for his health, but died soon after. Usually signed his work, "R M Crosby." [American Art Archives].