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Lot of five early 20th-century novels featuring attractive Edwardian-era pictorial and decorative cloth covers, including illustrated portrait panels and period cover designs. Includes: The Shepherd of the Hills – Harold Bell Wright, illustrated by F. Graham Cootes The Tracer of Lost Persons – Robert W. Chambers – D. Appleton & Company, 1906 Sunshine Jane – Anne Warner – illustrated frontispiece Beverly of Graustark – George Barr McCutcheon Miss Fallowfield’s Fortune – Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler – Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908 Synopsis: A nice cross-section of popular fiction from the Edwardian period, when publishers increasingly used colorful pictorial cloth bindings to attract readers. The books range from romance and adventure to mystery and light social fiction. Robert W. Chambers’ The Tracer of Lost Persons follows an unusual investigator who specializes in locating missing people, while The Shepherd of the Hills is Harold Bell Wright’s well-known story of life, romance, and redemption in the Ozark Mountains. The other titles reflect the romantic and domestic fiction popular with American readers in the early 1900s. All five retain their decorative period covers and display well together. Condition shows normal age and use; please review photos.