Inscribed by the Riley Brothers, With a Poem
A Child-World.
Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen Merrill Company, 1897.
Price: $600.00
About the item
First edition, first state. Frontispiece by Will Vawter. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth gilt. Light wear to spine ends, else fine. Bookplate of Ella Mabel Clark. BAL 16622; Russo, pp. 64-66.
Item #262163
Inscribed on an inserted leaf, “Mr Charles F. Clark. With compliments of Jno. A Riley” with a poem below in James‘ hand, beginning, “In this book of simple rhyme / Spare your scythe, old Father Time!” and inscribed, “James Whitcomb Riley. Indiannapolis, Ind., Oct. 1896.” A number of presentation leaves were prepared before the book’s publication, hence the early date in the inscription (cf. Russo, p. 65).
