Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1911
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations by Will Vawter (illustrator). American First. Edge wear to boards; some staining to back cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with color frontispiece and several black and white reproductions of paintings throughout. Book.
Language: English
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1905
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 195 Clean, Unmarked Pages. Green Cloth, Gilt, Decorations In White, Black, And Gilt. First ;Printing, This Title Not On List Of Riley's Books At Front. Bright, Clean, Unfaded, Gilt Brilliant. No Foxing. Cover Corners, Bottom And Top Of Spine Slightly Rubbed. A Very Handsome Copy. Ownership Information Of Randolph Miller Hale Of The Department Store Family In San Francisco, Dated Nov 5, 1917, Noting It Was His Grandmother Miller's 50Th Wedding Anniversary.
Published by The Franklin Library, 1981
Seller: Gavin's Books, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Leather Bound. Condition: Used - Very Good. First Edition. Moss green leather over boards with 3 raised bands, gilt titling and decoration, gilt-edged book block and attached satin bookmark. Limited First Edition; minor scuffing to gilt stamping, covers otherwise clean and square, ep's show minor fading at edges that has turned from purple to reddish; a few light scuffs to book block, pages otherwise clean snd square, binding good; Notes from editor insert included.
Published by Charles Scribner, New York, 1930
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. B/w Frontis & Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 431pp. (dulling/fading to spine, toning to page edges) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1905
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by Vawter, Will (illustrator). A lovely example of book design with a stamped portrait of a young man in three colors. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Tissue guarded frontispiece and illustrations by Will Vawter through-out. Early Edition. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". [wiki].
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. xix, 187 pages. Condition is Very Good. spine lightly toned, bookplate on front pastedown, text and illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. STK.
Decorative Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. G/G. (1924). . Decorative Cloth w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 191 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, cover rubbed, bumped, page lightly toned, writing on endpapers .
Published by Copyright by the author 1908. Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis., 1908
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped and rubbed. Green cloth binding with decorative front cover. Small stain on front free endpaper. 190 pages with many illustrations.
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1915
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket, bound in gray cloth with pink and green floral design on front cover. Very good condition, with some browning and slight foxing to edges of interior pages, slight rubs to cover corners, front cover illustration is bright and attractive. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for previous owners' names written on front endpaper. No statement of later printing on copyright page.
Language: English
Published by Charles Scribner's, New York, 1926
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Will James, 8 illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with edgewear. Complete issue.
Published by The Buffalo Bill Press (1964), 1964
Seller: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, U.S.A.
hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 75 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Published by a l burt company publisher, 1929
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1929 I believe as the illustrations are date 1929 hardcover book VERY GOOD clean copy no writing in or on book, binding is solid, no jacket.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1967. (Hardcover) Very good in very good plus dust jacket. 431pp. Line drawings, color illustrations. The spine is lightly creased and the dust jacket is starting to delaminate. "Will James' story is as romantic as any in American literature. He was born in a covered wagon in Montana in 1892, and his life story is told in this book from his birth through the incidents that he describes as 'cutting my wisdom teeth on sharp edges of experience'". Biography of Will James. Illustrations by Will James. Series: Scribner Illustrated Classics. (Fiction, Autobiography, Cowboy Art, Western America).
Published by Moffat, Yard, New York
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1907. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 76pp. Green cloth with an oval pastedown illustration inside a decorative border. Illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, color illustrations, decorated text. The printing has been rubbed away from the spine and partly from the front cover, the corners are lightly worn and there is a small white spot on the bottom of the front cover. Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. (Poetry).
Published by The Bobbs Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1900
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Good- dust jacket. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt title and elaborate gilt spine decoration, in tan, printed dust jacket. t.e.g. The dj has a few chips, and is split along the front joint; held in place with a mylar sleeve. Rare in dust jacket. Near Fine in Good dj.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1930 1st ed, New York, 1930
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
First Edition
HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 433pp Signed first edition with Will James typical 1930 signature on the front free endpaper. This copy is priced for the following faults: Owner's name and address on front free endpaper, SPINE FADED (as usual), glass ring on front board, edgewear to cloth, faint two initials on bottom edge of book-block. Internally clean and tight. good, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket SPINE FADE-SEE NOTE.