Author: Cable,
Title: The Eugene Field Book: verses, stories, and letters for school reading.
Description: NY, Scribner, 1902. Fair. Frontis shows Field reading from a book surrounded by children. "Outgrowth of a constant demand for Field's poems in daily. school-reading, in weekly exercises, in school entertainments, in kindergartens, and in home study." from preface. Selections made on a basis furnished by the children themselves. Burt notes that after a poetry contest at Carnegie Hall, NY, "Seein' Things at Night" (recited by a 12-yr old boy) received a tremendous encore from a crowded house of scholarly people. Short autobiography of Field at end of book. Maroon decorated binding with boy and girl and flowers. Edge wear, owner inscription. Part of "Some Time" poem cut away at bottom.

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