Author: RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB
Title: An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Description: Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. B&W Illustrations; Ths is an early printing of the expanded version of the poem -- this published under the Bobbs-Merrill company statement, not Bowen-Merrill Co. The book is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition with green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front cover and green and orange decorations to both the spine and front cover. There is an oval pictorial pastedown illustration on the front cover which has some beginning rubbing and edge wear. There are several very small spots with beginning fraying to the edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright . The endpapers are illustrated in pinkish - red. Illustrated throughout with nineteen black and white plates by Howard Chandler Christy, with decorations (in pinkish red) by Virginia Keep. The bottom corner of the rear pastedown page has been pulled leaving a triangular section (approximately four inches long by three inches tall by two+ inches deep) with the colored decoration removed (the top layer of paper with the decorations is pulled off, leaving the bottom layer visible). "From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Christy was active as a portrait painter whose sitters included presidents, senators, industrialists, movies stars, and socialites. He painted Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Other famous people he painted include William Randolph Hearst, the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) , Eddie Rickenbacker, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto, and Amelia Earhart. By 1938, Time magazine proclaimed Christy "the most commercially successful U. S. Artist." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Illustrated Editions James Whitcomb Riley Howard Chandler Christy Illustrated Virginia Keep Poems Poetry American Poetry
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Title: An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Description: Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. B&W Illustrations; Ths is an early printing of the expanded version of the poem -- this published under the Bobbs-Merrill company statement, not Bowen-Merrill Co. The book is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition with green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front cover and green and orange decorations to both the spine and front cover. There is an oval pictorial pastedown illustration on the front cover which has some beginning rubbing and edge wear. There are several very small spots with beginning fraying to the edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright . The endpapers are illustrated in pinkish - red. Illustrated throughout with nineteen black and white plates by Howard Chandler Christy, with decorations (in pinkish red) by Virginia Keep. The bottom corner of the rear pastedown page has been pulled leaving a triangular section (approximately four inches long by three inches tall by two+ inches deep) with the colored decoration removed (the top layer of paper with the decorations is pulled off, leaving the bottom layer visible). "From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Christy was active as a portrait painter whose sitters included presidents, senators, industrialists, movies stars, and socialites. He painted Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Other famous people he painted include William Randolph Hearst, the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) , Eddie Rickenbacker, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto, and Amelia Earhart. By 1938, Time magazine proclaimed Christy "the most commercially successful U. S. Artist." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Illustrated Editions James Whitcomb Riley Howard Chandler Christy Illustrated Virginia Keep Poems Poetry American Poetry
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43900
- Book number: 43900
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