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AFTERWHILES
by James Whitcomb Riley
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
€27.93€22.35
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898. AFTERWHILES- James Whitcomb Riley- The Bowen-Merrill Co.-Indianapolis- 1898- Hardcover:-12mo- Good/ no dj- slightly toned and soiled original green cloth covers with titles in gilt- 196pp, no writing or tears, light foxing to eps and some pages-top edge of pages are gilt- frontis of Riley in B&W- binding and spine are nice and tight- 19 cm. 1898 edition of the original 1887 publication.- blank, half-title, [i-vi], vii-x, [1-2], 3-196, blank. Title page uncut-SEE PHOTOS- Poems include Das Krist Kindel, The Beautiful City, Lockerbie Street, Anselmo, The South Wind and the Sun, A Home-Made Fairy Tale, The Lost Kiss, The Sphinx. Sonnets include Pan, Dusk, June, Silence, Art and Love, Indiana. In Dialects include Old- Fashioned Roses, Griggsby's Station, Knee-Deep in June, When the Hearse Comes Back. etc- Non-fiction-poetry-verse (2774) . Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated Frontis. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2774
- Title
- AFTERWHILES
- Author
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Illustrator
- Illustrated Frontis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Bowen-Merrill Co.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Non-fiction-poetry-verse
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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