Riley Child-Rhymes
by RILEY, James Whitcomb
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899., 1899. 8vo. Illustrated by Will Vawter. Original gilt stamped pictorial olive green cloth (shaken). Good. Signed and inscribed to James Newton Matthews on the front free endpaper: "To James Newton Matthews, with all faith and affection of his boisterous playmate, James Whitcomb Riley." Indianapolis May 17: 1902 "The goodest mens they is aint good As baddest little childs ['Uncle, Sidney' quoted.]" See Letters of James Whitcomb Riley for letters to Dr. James Newton Matthews.. Inscribed by Author(s). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 304389
- Title
- Riley Child-Rhymes
- Author
- RILEY, James Whitcomb
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899.
- Date Published
- 1899
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