Riley Eugene Field Whitcomb (44 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 215 pages. Some staining and wear to the decorated covers; pages are tanned; name inside; a cigarette smell inside; a solid binding. Illustrator: Young, Art. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 225562. Young, Art (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. In printed wraps, 8vo, unpag. (light yellowing to wraps at edges). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 61 pp. No Date; characteristically, a reprint. presumably, of the only, First Edition. 10 red figure-over-gold background illustrations (6 appearing on the jacket and book cover itself, for example, Paul Revere on his "Midnight Ride", Little Bo Peep, ) decorating text. Dustwrapper and book have identical design, grid of 6 squares, illustrated with images representing the poems with red over gold, or gold over red, figures; Title lettering in white superimposed upon a 5/8" band of dark green across upper middle front cover. Dustwrapper price-clipped with micro chip to surface red at lower right front cover corner; small 1/8" open tear at gutter lower left corner front cover and micro ruffling across spine end; 5/8 x 1/16" missing bit at rear cover lower left corner and on lower edge; micro tear at top right front cover corner: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: essentially Fine with cosmetic flaws and NO fading to spine or covers, like book itself, appearing fresh and newish. Only peccadillo with book itself is tiny chips at lower spine corners, revealing gray beneath missing white bits of surface at those corners: still nugatory. Strong sewn binding; corners sharp (NO bumps or curls); virtually no rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names. Clean text. Arguably, in Gift-Giving Condition. Vera Bock (illustrator).…

PRINTED STIFF PAPER COVERS. Condition: Very Good. NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. SECOND EDITION. (53) UNPAGINATED PRINTED PAGES. PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE "ESOTERIKA BIBLION SOCIETY." THERE IS MILD SOILING OF THE COVERS. THE INTERIOR IS TIGHT AND CLEAN, THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS EUGENE FIELD'S "LITTLE WILLIE." ABOUT HIS LITTLE SON WETTING THE BED WHEN HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHER. ANOTHER SELECTION IS JAMES WHITCOMB'S ESSAY ABOUT THE FAMILIAR OUTHOUSE PRIVY TOILET THAT IS TITLED "THE PASSING OF THE BACKHOUSE." A THIRD ESSAY IS A LETTER BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF BRUSSELS ABOUT PASSING "WIND" OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "FARTING." THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY FRANKLIN TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY WHO HAD REJECTED SOME OF FRANKLIN'S SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. FINALLY, THERE ARE 23 LOVE LETTERS BY FAMOUS PERSONS TO THEIR LOVERS THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE FIRST EDITION. Size: 6" x 9".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. Reprint. Includes: A Letter by Dr. Franklin to the Royal Academy of Brussels. About farting. From the Blue-Behinded Ape edition of 1929. The Passing of the Backhouse by James Whitcomb Riley. About pooping. And Little Willie by Eugene Field. About peeing. Seems to cover the field.…

unpaginated, 6x9 inches, very good in original blue wraps with some foxing on cover edges. Mild scatology. The other "curious" items, are reprints of love letters between persons, mostly Frenchmen and Germans, famous in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library, with only a small label on the front wrapper and brief pencil on the title page. Moderate toning, a few tiny stains. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 30 pages.

Condition: New.

PRINTED STIFF PAPER COVERS. Condition: Very Good. NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. First Edition. (32) PRINTED PAGES. LIGHT GREEN COLORED STIFF PAPER PRINTED WRAPPERS. MILD SUN FADING OF THE SPINE EDGE OTHERWISE THE BOOKLET WOULD BE IN FINE CONDITION. THIS FIRST EDITION DOES NOT CONTAIN THE ADDITIONAL 23 LOVE LETTERS WRITTEN BY FAMOUS PEOPLE THAT WAS ADDED INTO THE SECOND EDITION OF THE BOOKLET. THE BOOKLET CONTAINS A POEM TITLED 'LITTLE WILLIE" BY EUGENE FIELD. THE POEM DISCUSSES THE BED WETTING OF HIS LITTLE SON, EUGENE FIELD II. THERE IS A SECOND ESSAY, A LETTER BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF BRUSSELS THAT HAD TURNED DOWN ONE OF FRANKLIN'S OFFERINGS. FRANKLIN'S LETTER IS ABOUT THE PASSING OF "WIND" OTHERWISE KNOWN AS FARTING. THE THIRD ESSAY ABY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY IS ABOUT THE PASSING OF THE OUTDOOR PRIVY KNOW FONDLY AS THE "OUTHOUSE." Size: 4 7/8 X 6 15/16".…

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd Edition. NICE as pictured a good condition hardcover, darkened boards, tear starting inside hinge gently read clean pages. Bookplate plus owner name with ads. Authors James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, Bill Nye, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hamlin Garland, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Will Carleton, M. Quad and Opie Read. Includes biography of each author. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Shelf 528 Text clean and book tight; paper very lightly browned; some light smudges to covers and spine strip, small circular sticker with nujmber 18 on front cover; Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder.

Privately printed for private circulation. Softcover. c.48pp. Light green stapled wraps slightly sunned, V.g.

First Edition. POETICA EXOTICA THREE DELIGHTFUL, SUPPRESSED ITEMS FROM THE PENS OF THREE GREAT WRITERS AND OTHER CURIOUS ITEMS, Esoterika Biblion Society, 1938, first edition, fine in wraps.

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited/Numbered. Large, thin softcover, peach-colored wrappers, black lettering on front wrapper, very small smudge at bottom front wrapper. One of 975 copies produced. Fine copy.

[NONE] 1938. (Mass market paperback) Very good. NP. 8vo. Pale blue-green card wrappers, lightly sunned, with light wear and some markings. Interesting collection of mild scatology that includes a letter written by Dr. Franklin to the Royal Academy of Brussels related to wind (farts); Little Willie by Eugene Field describes a young lad prone to wetting his bed, and there is a commentary offered from James Whitcomb Riley about defecation (poop). The additional 'curious' items are reprints of letters sent between various people, most of whom lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. An opportunity for intellectuals, bibliophiles, and well, anyone, to explore pages they might otherwise not seen. Internally clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Publisher's orange gilt cloth with black silhouettes and author list in gilt in a black square on the cover. Single date on c.p. Early effort by noted American artist Art Young. A clean, unmarked, tight copy, uncommon in this fine condition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A delightful collection of sketches, stories, and poems by some of the most popular American authors of the late 19th century. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the minds of these creative talents, and is sure to entertain readers of all ages.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A delightful collection of sketches, stories, and poems by some of the most popular American authors of the late 19th century. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the minds of these creative talents, and is sure to entertain readers of all ages.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 68 pp. NO number line or printing indicated, but ' 1947, 1949 ' cited on CP: presumed First Edition, First Printing; ' J195195 ' printed at lower left inside front cover [which also appears on later editions with later printing identifications] and ' 463: 195 [underlined]' at top right front cover corner; endpapers illustrated with multifarious animals. NO dust jacket. 1" piece of cellophane surface missing in gutter front cover at 3 3/8" down from top right spine edge, with 1/8" hole at middle of it (NO impact on binding (7 sites of sewn threads along inside front cover hinge); nugatory cellophane 1" tear on rear cover gutter at 3" down from top left spine corner (NOW reglued so as to be virtually undetectable; small rubbing wear at cover and spine corners; text lightly age-toned around perimeters and on text block edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Strong binding (stretched only a bit at first few pages front and back, else tight); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NOT ex-Library. Clean text. Solid copy. Arguably, Holiday or Birthday Gift-Giving Quality, especially, given that the book is more than 60 years-old or near 75 years-old. The way to read Classic Children's Poetry from many well-known Children's Poets. Gertrude Elliott (illustrator).…

Paperback. First edition thus. Original printed wrappers, 9.5 x 6.25 inches, 31 pp. 4 short ribald writings by the named authors (2 are by Eugene Field). Rusty staining to front wrapper, else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Octavo, 32 pages, printed on Alexandra Japan, white paper vellum wrappers (chipped at bottom of top cover) This short story features "Ye Queene Elizabeth, Francis Bacon, Shaxpur [sic], Sr. Walter Ralegh, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumonte, the Duchess of Bilgewater, Lady Helen, and maidens of honor, as told by Ye Queen's cup-bearer. [ Meine, Bibliography of 1601, 16 ( see also no. 12]. Allegedly printed for the editor, Vanover. "Backhouse" has been attributed to J. W. Riley, but not by Riley's bibliographers. "French Crisis has been attributed to Eugene Field, but without substantiation, but he is credited for "Little Willie".…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

4 short pieces privately printed for subscribers only. Field Fireside Conversation, Twain; A French Crisis, Field; Little Willie, Field; The Old Backhouse, Riley. ~~Original printed wrappers, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" inches, 31 pp, stapled. Embossed "Library of Robert W. Waite" on title page. Slight wear around edges of wrappers.…