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RARE 1894 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY INDIANA POET ILLUSTRATED
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RARE 1894 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY INDIANA POET ILLUSTRATED Description: ON AUCTION are two fine books by James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet from Indiana. Including a deluxe fancy illustrated edition of An Old Sweetheart of Mine, by James Whitcomb Riley, Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1901. Beautifully bound in purple embossed cloth, with an oval illustration on the front board. Every page highly decorated. No page numbers, a very elaborate book. 9x6 and a half inches. Also, we are including the 1894 first edition, Armazindy, by James Whitcomb Riley, published by The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, nicely bound in tan and purple cloth, as seen in the scan. The book has an interesting bookplate from The Sesame Reading Club, Albany, New York. And inside, we find a sign up sheet for the Sesame Book Club, Albany, with the names of the members. Including names like Vandenburgh, Knickerbocker, Pruyn, Ten Eyck, some old Dutch names from the Hudson Valley.James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1847 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet", "National Poet" [1] and the "Children's Poet," he started his career during 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. His verse tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one-thousand poems that Riley published, over half are in dialect. Claiming that “simple sentiments that come direct from the heart” were the reason for his success, Riley vended verse about ordinary topics that were "heart high." Riley was a bestselling author during the early 1900s and earned a steady income from royalties; he also traveled and gave public readings of his poetry. His favorite authors were Robert Burns and Charles Dickens, and Riley himself befriended bestselling Indiana authors such as Booth Tarkington, George Ade and Meredith Nicholson. Many of his works were illustrated by the popular illustrator Howard Chandler Christy.
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