The Girl I loved / by James Whitcomb Riley ; drawings by Howard Chandler Christy ; decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, Author.

Contributor:

Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, Illustrator.

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, illustrator.

Weales, Gerald, 1925-2013, associated name, former owner.

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indiana--Poetry.

Indiana.

Publishers' bindings--20th century--Specimens.

Publishers' bindings.

Cloth bindings (Bookbinding)--20th century--Specimens.

Cloth bindings (Bookbinding).

Genre:

Romance fiction

Poetry

Love stories.

Romance fiction.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- Indiana -- Indianapolis -- 1910.

Embossed cloth bindings.

Physical Description:

[71] pages, [23] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Indianapolis] : Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1910]

Notes:

In verse.

Illustrated endpapers with title, author and illustrator.

Two issues include: (a) Green cloth cover, 23 cm., with small mounted portrait; the text and illustrations in reddish orange; the decorations, including endleaves, in pale yellow; (b) Green cloth cover, 25 cm., with large mounted illustration; the text in black, with decorations in light orange, without decorated endleaves.

Local Notes:

PS2704.G5 1910: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Gerald Weales Estate has autograph of Hazel Louise Ovitz? on front pastedown and has business card of Miss Ethel Douglas with handwritten note on verso ("If you get one half the pleasure in possessing this little book that I do in giving it, I shall be made happy. Accept it with the best love of your friend Peggy". This copy is issue (a).

Cited in:

BAL 16792

BAL 16782

Gullans & Espey 218

Other Format:

Online version: Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. Girl I loved.

OCLC:

279955