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Rhymes of Childhood by James Whitcomb Riley - 1898

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Rhymes of Childhood by James Whitcomb Riley - 1898

Rhymes of Childhood

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (Copyright 1896, 1898). Hardcover with red boards, 216 pages. No dust jacket (if issued). Endpapers and pages are toned, but clean and unmarked. Binding square and tight. Deckled fore edge.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect.

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  • Illustrator Alice Barber Stephens
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  • Place of Publication Indianapolis, IN
  • Date Published 1898
  • Pages 216
  • Size 7.5 x 5.25 x 1 inches
  • Keywords Poetry, Indiana, Hoosier Poet
  • Size 7.5 x 5.25 x 1 inches

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Bobbs-Merrill. 1900. good. Hardcover. xii 234pp; glossy b/w illustrated frontis with tissue guard; foxing, heavier on end pages; 7" tall; gilt decor & lettering to darkened spine; light shelf wear to edges of red cover .
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1903. Hardcover. Good +. [4], ix-xii, 216 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt-stamped ears of corn on spine and front cover. Top page edges gilt. Copyright 1896 and 1898 by the author. Bobbs-Merrill began business in 1903. In Good+ Condition: corners rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; former owner's name crossed out on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill. 1900. good+. Hardcover. 234 pages; laid paper; previous owner name & date 1906 in pencil on free front ep; few foxing marks on pp 62-65, otherwise text clean; 7" tall; top edge gilt; gilt decor & lettering on front & spine of soiled cover; front cover has a small hole in red cloth over boards; no dj .
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by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company. Good+; Binding Slightly Loose, Owner's Name Inside. 1895. Hardback. 186 pages .
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Rhymes of Childhood: The Poems and Prose Sketches of James Whitcomb Riley

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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NY: Scribner's Sons. 1906. vg. Hardcover. Vol. 5 of The Works of James Whitcomb Riley. 7.5" tall; brown cover with gilt corn decoration & gilt rules & lettering front & spine; 216pp; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; watermarked paper (this is a positive attribute and does not mean that the pages are water-stained); no volume number on spine; b/w frontis with tissue guard; prev. owner's name dated 1946 on front endpage .
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Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. Minor spotting to the spine; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches .
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