Buy this book on-line

Riley, James Whitcomb : Memorial Edition. James Whitcomb Riley's Complete Works. Including Poems and Prose Sketches, Many of Which Have Not Hertofore Been Published; an Authentic Biography, an Elaborate Index and Numerous Illustrations in Color from Paintings By Howard Chandler, Christy and Ethel Franklin Betts

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916

Ten volumes bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; gilt edging to the top of the pages. I: 284 pages; frontportrait. II: pages 285-571, plates. III: pages 573-856, plates. IV: pages 857-1139, plates. V: pages 1141-1422, plates. VI: pages 1423-1704, plates. VII: pages 1705-1965, plates. VIII: pages 1967-2238, plates. IX: pages 2239-2616, plates. X: pages 2517-2801, plates, indexes. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was a noted Indiana author and poet. He wrote over a thousand poems, over half in the Indiana dialect and was awarded in 1912 the National Institute of Arts and Letters, its first Gold Medal of Poetry. He is most famous for his poem 'Little Orphan Annie'. This Memorial Edition contains all his writings. Blanck - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, VII: # 16716 "Reprint save for 'Youth and Age' in vol.5; 'St. Lirriper' in vol. 7; and, 'Something', 'A Christmas-Time Jingle', 'When Baby Played', When Baby Slept', and 'When Baby Woke' in vol. 9". Fine clean set.. Illustr.: Howard Chandler Christy and Ethel Franklin Betts. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Hardcover

Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints.