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While The Heart Beats Young by RILEY, James Whitcomb - 1906

by RILEY, James Whitcomb

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While The Heart Beats Young by RILEY, James Whitcomb - 1906

While The Heart Beats Young

by RILEY, James Whitcomb

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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. hardcover. Poor/Fair for age. BETTS, Ethel Franklin. Hardcover, no jacket. Poor/Fair for age. Wear and bumping to corners and board edges, fraying cloth at corners; rubbing/wear to covers; soiling/staining to covers; chipping/nicking/small tears/small closed tears/fraying to head/foot of spine; bumping to head/foot of spine; slanting to spine; scuffing to spine edges; age toning to covers; sunning to spine; couple spots of water stains/whitening to covers; rubbing/fading to spine gilt; rubbing/nicking to front cover title pastedown, especially at edges; soiling/staining to page edges; dust staining to top edge of pages; hinges cracked exposing binding mesh; numerous heavy cracks to binding in textblock, exposing binding mesh and making pages feel very loose; gift inscription inked to back of front endpaper; foxing/sunning to edges of pages; frontispiece, pages 23, 29, 35, 79-82 loose but present 4 of the pages being illustrations and page 79/80 being text; pages browned; some soiling/staining to pages at margins; pages browned.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator BETTS, Ethel Franklin
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Poor/Fair for age
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  • Place of Publication Indianapolis
  • Date Published 1906
  • Keywords 51F

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While the Heart Beats Young

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. Betts, Ethel Franklin. Some breaks in binding, pages are quite worn. Age toning throughout. All color plates present.
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While the Heart Beats Young

by James Whitcomb Riley

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The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. .
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While the Heart Beats Young

by James Whitcomb Riley

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The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.0000 9.0000 6.0000.
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WHILE THE HEART BEATS YOUNG

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Bobbs-Merrill. Indianapolis. 1906., 1906 Book size about 7 by 9 1/2 inches with some 110 pages. Bound in gray/green cloth with nearly full front cover color pictorial paste-on; gilt spine lettering. Double page illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). Color frontis, 15 full page color plates, numerous smaller tinted images throughout, all by ETHEL FRANKLIN BETTS. Book with about average wear; rear hinge cracked; previous owners inscriptions at front; cloth bookplate inside front cover; one color plate laid-in loose. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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WHILE THE HEART BEATS YOUNG

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Indianpolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Clean very good copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall . Very Good. Hardcover. First.. 1906.
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While the Heart Beats Young

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ethel Franklin Betts. Original green gilt cloth with color pastedown and illustrated endpapers. Beautiful color plates by Betts illustrate various Riley poems for children and youth. A clean, tight, unmarked copy with minor rubbing to bottom edges.
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While the Heart Beats Young

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1906. Hardcover. very good. Octavo. 24cm x 18cm. Green cloth with color pictorial paste-on to front cover.Gilt lettering to spine. Color pictorial endpapers. 16 color illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts. Inscription of previous owner. Some light rubbing to edges. Brandywine illustrator.
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While the Heart Beats Young

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Hardcover
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(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill: Copyright 1887, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1896, 1898, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1906 by the Author) Cloth with large pictorial pastedown (including the title) on front panel pp. 110 (241 x 180 mm) Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts, in colour throughout, and including sixteen coloured plates. Edges uncut. A light stain from a cutting about Orphan Annie to accompany the piece ‘Orphan Annie’; a few mainly marginal marks; otherwise a very good copy.
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While the Heart Beats Young (Classic Reprint)
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While the Heart Beats Young (Classic Reprint)

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780282318420 / 0282318429
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Newport Coast, California, United States
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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While the Heart Beats Young

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Used
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Hardcover
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1906, 1st edition. (hardcover) 110pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Sage green cloth; large colour paste-down plate to front and gilt title to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Colour plates by Ethel Franklin Betts, as well as many duo-tone illustrations. The table of contents is mis-numbered. Spine is notably weak, and the pages, as is oft the case, are loose. Remains complete and beautiful..
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