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Riley Child-Rhymes / James Whitcomb Riley with Hoosier pictures by Will Vawter.

LIBRA - Rare PS2704 .C4 1899
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, author.
Contributor:
Vawter, Will, 1871-1941, illustrator.
Weales, Gerald, 1925-2013, associated name, former owner.
Bowen-Merrill Company, publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indiana--Juvenile poetry.
Indiana.
Children's poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
American poetry.
Genre:
Juvenile works
Poetry
Children's poetry.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1898.
Publishers' advertisements -- 1899.
Children's poetry -- 1899.
Nursery rhymes -- 1899.
Juvenile literature -- 1899.
Pictorial cloth bindings.
Publishers' advertisements.
Nursery rhymes.
Juvenile literature.
Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) -- United States -- 19th century.
Physical Description:
188, [4] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Child-rhymes
Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures
Place of Publication:
Indianapolis : The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899.
Contents:
Little orphant Annie
The Raggedy Man
Curly Locks
The funny little fellow
The happy little cripple
The rider of the knee
Down around the river
At Aunty's house
The days gone by
The bumblebee
The boy lives on our farm
The squirtgun Uncle maked me
The old tramp
Old Aunt Mary's
Winter fancies
The runaway boy
The little coat
An impetuous resolve
Who Santy-Claus wuz
Nine little goblins
Time of clearer twitterings
The Circus-Day parade
The lugubrious Whing-Whang
Waitin' fer the cat to die
Naughty Claude
The South Wind and the Sun
The jolly miller
Our hired girl
The boys' candidate
The pet coon
The old hay-mow
On the sunny side
A sudden shower
Grandfather Squeers
The pixy people
A life lesson
A home-made fairy tale
The bear story
Envoy.
Notes:
Preliminary pages printed in red and black.
Olive cloth boards stamped and printed gilt with white and black illustration on front cover.
Local Notes:
PS2704.C4 1899: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has handwritten note from diary "This is State 3. See Russo Biblio. of Riley, p. 202" laid in.
Other Format:
Online version: Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. Riley child-rhymes.
OCLC:
4828931

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