RILEY SONGS OF HOME

by James Whitcomb Riley

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, (1910).

Reprint: BAL 16793.

Illustrations by Will Vawter

  Original dark green decorative cloth, with cover illustration of a woman against a bright gilt oval; gilt-stamped titles. The gilt decoration and lettering appears as new and unblemished!

Christmas 1918 inscription in pencil to the front endpaper, else a fine, bright remarkably fresh copy; in the original shelfworn dust jacket with a darkened spine, some soiling, and age-toned cellotape across the top and at the rear corner tips.

A collection of Riley's previously published poems with the home as a central theme.

Octavo (7 3/4" by 5 1/2")

190 pages.

Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Will Vawter throughout.

While living in Greenfield, Vawter developed a close working relationship with James Whitcomb Riley another resident of Greenfield. Vawter illustrated eleven volumes of Riley poems often using local residents as models.

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author, during his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet".


An superb copy in the RARE original dust jacket.


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