Songs of Cheer
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Illustrations by Vawter, Will. Hardcover.
A lovely example of book design with a stamped portrait of a young man in three colors.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Tissue guarded frontispiece and illustrations by Will Vawter through-out. Early Edition.
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". [wiki]
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