The Works of James Whitcomb Riley (Homestead Edition Complete 14 Volume Set)

James Whitcomb Riley

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1910

About this Item

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1910. Hardcovers. Reprint editions. Books are tight, square, and unmarked. Book Conditions: all are very good; all have light sunfading to spine; all have light bumping to the tips; Volume 1 and 14 have a split in the paper of the front inner hinge but still held by the mull cloth; Volume 2 has a moisture stain to the outer upper corners of the pages; Volumes 5 and 8 have a piece of the FFFP torn away on the inner side next to the spine. No DJs. Brown cloth boards and spines with bright gilt lettering on the spine, gilt corn shock on front boards, gilt textblock upper edge, gilt border on front boards blind border on rear boards, frontispiece engravings present with tissue guards. Clean internals with many uncut deckled edge pages. 2629 pp in total 12mo. The books in this set are: Vol 1: Neighborly Poems; Vol 2: Sketches in Prose; Vol 3: Afterwhiles; Vol 4: Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury; Vol 5: Rhymes of Childhood; Vol 6: The Flying Islands of the Night; Vol 7: Green Fields and Running Brooks; Vol 8: Poems Here at Home; Vol 9: Armazindy; Vol 10: A Child-World; Vol 11: Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers and Home-Folks; Vol 12: The Book of Joyous Children Brown; Vol 13: His Pa's Romance; Vol 14: Morning. A clean very presentable set of books.

Seller Inventory # 019023

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Works of James Whitcomb Riley (Homestead Edition Complete 14 Volume Set)
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1910
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Journalism/Writing
  • Literature/Poetry