Poems of Childhood
Language: English
Published by Artists & Writers Guild, Inc./Grosset & Dunlap, New York, New York, 1935
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.Gargoyle Books, IOBA
AbeBooks seller since December 6, 2001
Association member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 20.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Book of verse for children by the "Hoosier poet,'' with "Hoosier pictures" by illustrator Everett Shinn, a member of the American realist Ashcan school, commissioned especially for this 1943 edition (First, thus) by the Artists & Writers Guild, Inc. Slim hardcover small 4to (8.25" x 9.50") has a light blue cloth-wrapped spine with colorfully decorated paper over the remaining boards lettered in black & red script to front. Condition is VG: very clean save for stain to upper rear board. Binding strong & straight, pages significantly tanned, commensurate with age, but supple & unmarked save for former owner's name & address inside front cover. Slight bumping to both ends of spine & all corners. N0 DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Poems of Childhood
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb; Shinn, Everett (Illustrator)
- Publisher
- Artists & Writers Guild, Inc./Grosset & Dunlap, New York, New York
- Publication year
- 1935
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Shinn, Everett
- Edition
- First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA): Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Illustrated Books/Illustrators, Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories
Gargoyle Books, IOBA
La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
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