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Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures by Will Vawter / James Whitcomb Riley

2015.7.282

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1900s

7-3/4 in

5-1/4 in

James Whitcomb Riley

Will Vawter

First

Indianapolis

Indiana

United States

North America

1905

Publisher's Binding

Bound in dark green cloth with a gilt and black stamped illustration on the front cover of a girl reaching up to a butterfly and a seated boy with a fishing pole. The spine decoration is stunning - a high flying kite with a long tail.

Gift inscription on flyleaf: "For Sylvia With love and a Merry Christmas From Mamma Christmas 1910".

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