Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Stated first edition [1921]. Biographies of diverse American personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from P. T. Barnum to John G. Whittier; from John Fiske to The Smiley Brothers; from Booker T. Washington to Theodore Roosevelt; many others. Blue-gray cloth, frontis portrait of the author, no dustjacket. Covers rubbed and unevenly faded, upper corners a bit bent, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound with no loosened pages, light dampstains to upper corners of several pages toward the end of the book (not affecting text), pages otherwise clean and free from names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. First Edition.