Riley Child Rhymes: With Hoosier Pictures by Will Vawter

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Hardcover. Fair. Small octavo. xx, pages 21-189. Illustrated. Green illustrated cloth hardcover. Binding in poor condition with broken hinges and lightly shaken contents. Interior contents clean. Gift inscription written on the right front flyleaf - "To Fanny Lou and Mary from Aunt Jean & Uncle Frank(?) Atlanta June 9 -" Bookstore sticker located bottom of the front paste down reads "Books of all Publishers Cole Book Co., 85 Whitehall St. Atlanta Ga." Previous owner bookplate on the front paste down (Stephens Mitchell). Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia. Stephens Mitchell bookplate located on the front paste down. J. S. Reynolds signature ink stamped on the right front flyleaf. Possible Reynolds family inscription written below Reynolds ink stamped name.

Joseph Shewmake Reynolds (1869-1935) married Frances Pauline "Fannie" Hansberger (1869-1959) in Augusta, Georgia in 1901. Joseph Reynolds was an attorney. They had three children: Caroline Louise "Carrie Lou" Reynolds (1902-1950); William Glascock Reynolds (1903-1967), and Mary Josephine Reynolds (1905-1987). Carrie Lou Reynolds married Stephens Mitchell and was the sister in law to Margaret Mitchell. Glascock Reynolds was a noted Georgia artist. The Reynolds family moved from Augusta to Atlanta around 1916. He died on Christmas Day, 1935 in Atlanta.

Stephens Mitchell (1896-1983) was the son of Eugene Muse Mitchell and Isabel "Maybelle" (Stephens) Mitchell. He was born 1896 in Atlanta. His sister was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. Stephens Mitchell attended the University of Georgia and was a prominent Atlanta attorney, historian, and devout Catholic. He also edited the Atlanta Historical Bulletin. After John Marsh, husband of Margaret, died in 1952 Stephens became the executor of Margaret Mitchell's estate. Stephens Mitchell died in 1983 and the estate was passed on to his two sons Eugene Muse Mitchell II and Joseph Reynolds Mitchell.