Riley Farm-Rhymes
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. c1905. Cloth. An attractive Grosset & Dunlap reprint, following the 1901 edition by Bowen Merrill. Very Good condition, foxing to endpapers in lightly chipped and torn dust-jacket, 1918 owner's inscription to front fly-leaf ; "They don't call him James Whitcomb Riley round about where I live. Taking the liberty of old friends, they telescope the James, amputate the Whitcomb, and just say "Jim Riley". And they pronounce the words, too, with a loving heart as they might say "Sweetbriar Rose" or "Winesap Apple" or "The Old Folks at Home" or any other tender fragrant epthet bringing dear quick memories of summer garden or winter hearth" - Edwin Markham ; 8vo; 187 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24882
- Title
- Riley Farm-Rhymes
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1905
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014BS0427S
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1900s;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fly-Leaf
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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