Love-songs Of Childhood [ Inscribed By The Author ] - Also Includes A Handwritten Letter From Eugene Field
by Field, Eugene
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Cooperstown, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed to W. Irving Way with an original poem and signed by Field on the front free endpaper. Limited first edition. Copy no. X of 15 copies numbered I-XV of the "Van Gelder Edition" printed at the De Vinne Press on Japan paper for the author. Original flexible white Japan vellum binding, contents printed on one side of leaf only. BAL 5761 [this version "not seen"]. Included is a handwritten signed note from Field to Way on the letterhead of W. Irving Way & Co. , Publishers which starts "Dear Irving: Are people ever in? ..." Also included loose is an example of Field's book plate. .
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- Bookseller
- Willis Monie Books - ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 335144
- Title
- Love-songs Of Childhood [ Inscribed By The Author ] - Also Includes A Handwritten Letter From Eugene Field
- Author
- Field, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poems, Signed Book, Inscribed Book
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Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Cooperstown, New York
About Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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- Vellum
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