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The Hoosier Book, Containing Poems in Dialect / by James Whitcomb Riley, collected and arranged by Hewitt Hanson Howland.
LIBRA PS2702 .H6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916--Poetry.
- Rley, James Whitcomb.
- Dialect literature, American.
- Physical Description:
- 5 preliminary leaves, 598 pages ; 17 cm
- Manufacture:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Press of Braunworth & Co.,
- Other Title:
- Hoosier Book of Riley Verse
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1916]
- Contents:
- Neghborly Poems
- Afterwhiles
- Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury
- Poems of Childhood
- Green Fields and Running Brooks
- Armazindy
- Home-Folks
- His Pa's Romance
- Morning
- Poems Here at Home
- The Book of Joyous Children
- The Boys of the Old Glee Club
- A Defective Santa Claus
- Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers
- A Child-World
- Miscellany.
- Notes:
- Black cloth boards decorated and stamped in gilt on front cover; gilt edges.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- PS2702.H6: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has the bookplate of Gerald Weales and inscription "25th May 1950. I ain't nen don't p'tend to be much posted on philosophy, but if a doctor of you'd be, what better mentor than Riley. For Gerald, whose yearning* (*pun) fer learning has led him this day to complete the transition to Magister in Artibus. N" on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 1197437
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