Johnson Benj (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Green hardcover, ex-library marks, overall still good. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

paperback. Condition: as new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 50 pages. facsimile reprint of the first edition of the first book by James Whitcomb Riley. Originally published in 1883 by George C. Hitt & Co. plain brown wrappers over dust jacket. small inked out white sticker on rear inner flap of brown wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. This is a facsimile copy of Riley's poems published in 1882 by George C. Hitt & Co. and reprinted in 1920 to commemorate The Marshall Field Book Fair of 1920. This is a white paperback with white, now tanned and chipped DJ. The 50 pages are lightly tanned. Text block is loose from the cover.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st. Two tone brown boards with gilt printing, Starting to fray on corners, Light tanning on all pages, Owner presentation on Front End Paper, minor moisture stain top margin of first 16 pages, Text is clean. Thank you for your purchase from Sunset Books! Help Promote World Literacy, GIVE a Book as a GIFT!! In stock, Ships from Ohio. Size: 12mo. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full two toned green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine, slightly soiled and light wear to the extremities. Previous owner's name and date on the front free endpaper, newspaper clipping glued to the front paste down. Front cover spotted from spills. Overall in FAIR condition only. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No DJ. Some rubbing to the edges of the olive boards. Gilt title to spine. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is solid. BP/Poetry.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Riley, J.W. 1st. ed. Reprinted from the 1883 edition.facsimile reprint. g.-v.g. wrappers. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co, 1895 Hard Cover. /No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt top edge papers. Front cover beginning. UncleAndy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good clipped Jacket. First Edition. 1939 IN unclipped Jacket. NOTE: You are NOT buying the Stock photo!! The copy you are buying here has a significantly NICER jacket than the one depicted in the photo. The jacket you are getting has some light loss at top front corner and bottom of spine. Otherwise just some light edgwear and a short closed tear. A nicer jacket than usual for this title. 277pp. Union Pacific railroad -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good. First Edition, 1891, with a unique original dust jacket made of red cloth, with gilt print on the spine. There is some fading to the spine of the red dust jacket. The dust jacket is rare. There is a name on an inside blank page, and there are several dots on the half title page. Otherwise minimal wear and no writing. Ships within 24 hours.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original burgundy and tan cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of covers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Publisher's catalogue for 1897 at rear. xvi,90[+plates][+cat.]pp.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full two toned brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine, slightly soiled and light wear to the extremities. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in two tone green cloth. No mention of "Flying Islands in the Night" Or "An Old Sweetheart of Mine". Clean, bright tight copy with a bump to the top front board and some rubbing to the spine extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Facsimile reprint of the first edition published in 1920 by Marsahll Field. Paper jacket chipped at extremities, offsetting from the jacket flaps to the end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 90 pages. Green boards with gilt printing. Previous owner signed the front free end paper and previous owner notes are on the rear end pages. Spine ends and corners are rubbed otherwise the contents are bright and complete.

Wrappers. Condition: Good. A facsimile reprint of the 1883 George C. Hitt (Indianapolis, IN) edition presented by Marshall Field and Company as a sourvenir of the Marshall Field Book Fair in 1920. Beige wrappers, with dark brown paper dustjacket. Red titles. 50 pp. Dustjacket chipped with material missing at corners. Front hinge open. Replicates p. 41, stanza 4, line 1, "W" missing error. Good in wrappers.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a collection of various poems, many of which are narrated in a folksy style reminiscent of rural Midwestern communities in the 19th century. The poems center around the lives of farmers, rural families, animals, and the changing seasons and reflect the realities of day-to-day life. Many of these poems showcase a nostalgic yet honest look at the human condition, using accessible and relatable language that captures the humor, sorrows, and warmth of everyday life in a bygone era. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile edition as pictured very good condition soft cover in a dust jacket, 50 pages , tiny spine tears gently read clean pages. Published in 1920 by Marshall Fields as a souvenir of their 1920 book show in Chicago.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Facsimile reprint. 50p.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first state. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and name in ink on front endpapers (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded. 1891 Hard Cover. ix, [4] 90 pp. Gilt titles, top edge gilt. "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" and 'leven more poems. (1849?1916). An Indiana poet who wrote about his happy boyhood memories, James Whitcomb Riley is the author of verses that recapture the simple good times of another era. Riley has never been regarded as a great poet, but his work preserves the American past. Riley was born on Oct. 7, 1849, in Greenfield, Ind. He was the third of six children of Reuben A. Riley, a lawyer and orator. The only subject that interested him in school was reading, and he left school when he was 16. He traveled for a time with a company of sign painters and with a medicine-show company. Back in Greenfield he worked on the local paper and then took a job as a reporter in Anderson, Ind. There he attracted attention by carrying out a literary hoax. Riley felt that the public would acclaim almost any work if its author were famous. He wrote a poem called Leonainie in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. The Kokomo Dispatch printed it as an unpublished Poe masterpiece. After scholars asked to see the original Poe manuscript, Riley revealed the hoax. Riley next worked for the Indianapolis Journal for eight years. He contributed poems to the paper under a pen name, Benj. F. Johnson of Boone, posing as a farmer with a gift for turning his rustic language into pleasing verse. The Boone poems were collected in a little paperback volume of 50 pages as The Old Swimmin? Hole and ?Leven More Poems, published in 1883. Within a few years Riley had gained national fame with his books of verse and prose sketches. He became a platform entertainer, giving humorous readings from his own works. He was successful in this as well. Riley never married. He maintained a home in Indianapolis, where close friends lived with him. He died in Indianapolis on July 22, 1916. Riley?s other books include Afterwhiles (1887); Pipes o? Pan at Zekesbury (1888); Old-Fashioned Roses (1888); Rhymes of Childhood (1890); Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893); Armazindy (1894); A Child-World (1896); An Old Sweetheart of Mine (1902); and Out to Old Aunt Mary?s (1903). An edition of his poems, complete in six volumes, was published in 1913.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Softcover. 16mo. 6 3/8" x 4 7/16". 50pp. Folded white wrappers with tan parchment paper dust-jacket, both with title printed in red. Author's first book with twelve poems mainly dealing with memories of childhood. Written in "Hoosier" dialect. Publishers note indicates that some of the poems originally appeared in the Indianapolis Journal. White wrappers are very clean and nice with one tiny edge tear; dust jacket has light edge wear, some short edge tears and delicate corner. This copy is missing the "W" from "William" on page 41 but has printed wrappers on laid paper with horizontal chain lines as called for in Bal 16525.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True First Edition, title page inserted, P.41, stanza 4, line 1, "William", printed on laid paper with a scant inch between the horizontal wire marks. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dust wrapper of brown pulp paper, the printed cream inner wrappers printed the same as the title page are darkened and toned with small chips at spine ends, inner white wrapper attached to book lovely and white. Rear blank top corner crease, a few widely scattered small spots of toning throughout. With the ownership name in pencil front end page of C. M. Malott, Carol Ann Macy Malott, wife of Volney T. Malott, known as the Dean of Indiana banking and, as President of the Board of Directors of Crown Hill Cemetery, instrumental in securing Riley's burial site at the Cemetery's highest elevation. James Whitcomb Riley's first published book, Russo, pp. 3-6. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.