Riley john whitcomb (58 resultados)

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Red cover with gilt lettering and design shows light fraying at edges. Gilt wearing. TEG. Previous owner name and date of Xmas 1904 fep in pencil. Pages light and tight with many illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Will Vawter and John Cecil Clay (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 215 pages. Some staining and wear to the decorated covers; pages are tanned; name inside; a cigarette smell inside; a solid binding. Illustrator: Young, Art. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 225562. Young, Art (ilustrador).…

Condición: New. Howland, John A (ilustrador).

Condición: New. Howland, John A (ilustrador).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. (Originally published, 1890) Illus. by Will Vawter. Slightly soiling to edges of pp. 64 and 65, profusely illustrated throughout. Red cloth, spine slightly faded, lightly soiled overall. Near Very Good. Vawter, Will (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 61 pp. No Date; characteristically, a reprint. presumably, of the only, First Edition. 10 red figure-over-gold background illustrations (6 appearing on the jacket and book cover itself, for example, Paul Revere on his "Midnight Ride", Little Bo Peep, ) decorating text. Dustwrapper and book have identical design, grid of 6 squares, illustrated with images representing the poems with red over gold, or gold over red, figures; Title lettering in white superimposed upon a 5/8" band of dark green across upper middle front cover. Dustwrapper price-clipped with micro chip to surface red at lower right front cover corner; small 1/8" open tear at gutter lower left corner front cover and micro ruffling across spine end; 5/8 x 1/16" missing bit at rear cover lower left corner and on lower edge; micro tear at top right front cover corner: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: essentially Fine with cosmetic flaws and NO fading to spine or covers, like book itself, appearing fresh and newish. Only peccadillo with book itself is tiny chips at lower spine corners, revealing gray beneath missing white bits of surface at those corners: still nugatory. Strong sewn binding; corners sharp (NO bumps or curls); virtually no rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names. Clean text. Arguably, in Gift-Giving Condition. Vera Bock (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: VG. CLEAN COPY. JOHN WOLCOTT ADAMS (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Numerous illustrations by Adams, including a color frontis. A nice copy with some fading to the covers.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Reprint. Cover illustration by Howard Chandler Christy. This is a very bright and clean copy with cover illustration very bright. small former owner's name label on front free end page. A little fading to rear cover. ; 6 1/4 x 8 ". Illustrated by John Wolcott Adams (ilustrador).…

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in lilac colored cloth,s tamped in blue and green. A 87 pp. book of poetry by the prolifice aurthor. Previous owner's neat name to top of second endpaper. Decorative endsheets, TEG. Beautiful copy. John Wolcott Adams (ilustrador).

Pictorial Cover. Condición: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Pictorial Cover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Nice Illustrations & Decorative Cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. A Hoosier Romance is a sentimental narrative poem written in dialect by the American poet James Whitcomb Riley. Published in 1912 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis, the work is celebrated for its depiction of rural Indiana life and Hoosier culture. The 1912 edition is a hardcover volume typically featuring violet or green cloth binding with stamped floral or decorative titling. A distinctive feature of this edition is its rich illustration program: • Interior Illustrations: The book contains numerous full-page color and black-and-white illustrations by John Wolcott Adams, which appear on every other page facing the text. • Cover Art: Many copies feature a color pastedown illustration on the front cover by Howard Chandler Christy. This copy is in near fine condition. The cover is clean and undamaged, and the pages are quality and in great condition. John Wolcott Adams (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 87 Pp. Violet Cloth Stamped In White And Green, Top Edge Gilt, Violet Floral Endpapers. First Edition With 1910 Dates On Title And Copyright Pages. Fine, No Wear, But Some Fading To Violet Cloth. A Sentimental Story In Dialect Verse.

Hardcover. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. [56] pages; illustrations; publisher's green cloth binding with color illustration on the cover. Very good clean copy. John Wolcott Adams (ilustrador).

Illustrated Cloth. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. Howard Chandler Christy illustration affixed to front cover. Color illustrations. Ink notation front end paper. Farm hand declares his love for Patience Thompson. Adams, John Wilcott (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. numerous illustrations and decorations by Campbell, on heavy cardstock, corners bumped, wear along the gutter.

Condición: Very Good. Second edition. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Condición: Very Good. Rep. Very good. Slight rubbing.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Outer bifolium with a small nick at the bottom of the fold, corners bumped, and the exterior lightly soiled, still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "B.M.Co. 3450." *OCLC* locates five holdings. …

Softcover. Condición: Fair. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Bifolium separated along the fold but both leaves are present, edgewear including chips and tears and light offsetting over the music, a complete but fair to good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 16599-2. The composer of this piece, John Barnes Wells, was also a popular singer; he sang in the 1903 production of *The Wizard of Oz* and one of his final roles was in a production of *Uncle Tom's Cabin*.…

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color by John Wolcott Adams. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Cloth with paste-down illustration, by Howard Chandler Christy, to front board. Illustrations in color and b&w. No dust jacket. Previous owner's name and "Christmas, 1916" in ink. A solid copy with only light wear. There is a Christmas 1915 post card addressed to the previous owner in Golconda, Nevada laid in. John Wolcott Adams (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, printing unknown. Decorated binding; designer not attributed. No DJ; no initial sales price data provided. Wear and soiling to the edges, corners, and covers. Gift inscription (dated 1912) on the FFEP; otherwise, text is clean and pages unmarked. 87 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece in color and more than 30 additional drawings in black-and-white and color by John Wolcott ADAMS; decorated endpapers. Measures 6.25" x 8.75". TEG. This book has been reissued many times in many formats, but why buy a later reprint when you can own a copy in its original first edition state? More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Good+. John Wolcott ADAMS (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Toronto; The Copp, Clark Co.; 1910; First Edition, Canadian; Hardcover; Fine with No dust jacket as issued; A lovely book. Mauve decorative cover, floral design, with illustrations by John Wolcott Adams, some in color. 87 pages. A fine copy, inside and out. Enclosed in the scarce original card board box, the cover repeating the book design. I have rarely seen a 101 year old book this crisp and bright. (The box is worn along the edges and the lavender color has faded). This is the FIRST CANADIAN edition, same date as the U.S. edition, and identical save for the publisher information..…