Item #19213 The poems and prose sketches. James Whitcomb Riley.
The poems and prose sketches
The poems and prose sketches
The poems and prose sketches
The poems and prose sketches

With 38 original watercolors

The poems and prose sketches

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Volumes XV and XVI of the Homestead Edition, comprising Early Poems and Fugitive Pieces; 8vo, pp. [2], xi, [1], 268; [2], xi, [1], 227; contemporary full brown crushed levant, quadruple gilt rules on covers enclosing central arabesques with green morocco onlays, arabesques and onlays in corners, matching motif on gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, full doublures of green crushed levant, moiré endpapers; 2 gravure frontispiece portraits plus 38 original watercolors throughout, comprising title vignettes, marginal decorations, head- and tail-pieces, etc., showing agricultural and pastoral scenes, spiders, fish, butterflies, books, and art deco designs and ornamentation. In a brown cloth slipcase. Item #19213

Price: $2,500.00

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