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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field - (Complete 10 Volume Set) [With Holograph Poem "Can I Help You Along?" on ffep]
by Field, Eugene
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Collected. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 12mo (7-3/8 inches tall), all volumes have captioned, tissue-guarded frontis' and are printed on laid (machine), watermarked paper. All volumes with light wear to covers, any individual condition comments are in parentheses. Vol I - A Little Book of Western Verse, pp. li, 205, with the author's collected edition dedication holograph manuscript in fold-out facsimile tipped in (a few small water stains to cloth); Vol II - A Little Book of Profitable Tales, pp. ix, 290; Vol III - Second Book of Verse, pp. xv, 211; Vol. IV - Poems of Childhood, pp. xiv, 228, with a tipped in facsimile of a holograph manuscript tribute from James W. Riley dated Jan. 1896 (faint offset to endpapers); Vol V - The Holy Cross and Other Tales, pp. xxi, 293 (offset to endpapers); Vol VI - Echoes from the Sabine Farm, pp. xvii, 141 (faint offset to endpapers and some rippling to cloth); Vol VII - The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, pp. xii, 253, with a tipped in facsimile of the author's holograph manuscript for the first page of chapter 14 (offset to endpapers); Vol VIII - The House: An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer and of His Wife Alice, pp. ix, 268 (offset to endpapers and a full page poem (Can I Help You Along?), written in pencil, in a period hand onto the ffep and signed "Papa"); Vol IX - Songs and Other Verse, pp. xxvii, 217 (offset to endpapers); Vol. X - Second Book of Tales, pp. xii, 314 (faint offset to endpapers, small water stains to cloth, bottom corners bumped). Overall in very good condition. With the imprint of The De Vinne Press on the colophon page. Volume VIII ["The House"] with an anonymous and touching full page poem titled "Can I Help You Along?" set down in period hand pencil onto the ffep and signed "Papa". A fitting addition to the works of this famous poet.
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- Bookseller
- Harropian Books, IOBA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1676
- Title
- The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field - (Complete 10 Volume Set) [With Holograph Poem "Can I Help You Along?" on ffep]
- Author
- Field, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collected
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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