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A Few Neighbor-Children. [Autograph Manuscript, signed].

Riley, James Whitcomb.

[N.p: ca. 1900.

Price: $2,000.00

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About the item

Published in The Century, January 1902, pp. 431-3; collected in The Book of Joyous Children (Scribners, 1902). Ink on paper, 6 pages, first leaf marked with blue pencil; mounted, with printed title leaf, two portraits, and first published text (inlaid). 1 vols. 4to. Full navy blue morocco gilt, red silk doublures, t.e.g. Rebacked. Very good, internally fine.

Item #375237

“Me an’ Bert an’ Mille-Bell / Knows a Joke an’ We won’t tell”

Manuscript poem, character sketches of children and their delights, in Hoosier dialect, by the Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley, signed at the top of the first leaf; handsomely presented.