Search Results: Poetry from The Periscope Collection

Derrydale Books, 1986. Hardback. Excellent Condition. Jessie Willcox Smith. Ms. Smith was a true American original, and her drawings illuminate Mother Goose like no other.

DoubleDay and Company, 1954. HB. Good. Marguerite de Angeli. 54-9838

Old collection of verse, in Fair Condition.

Sold as Ist Edition by other sellers, this book has no mark authorizing this, although this was published in 1902, the first year of its publicaton. James Whitcomb Riley was known as the Hoosier poet, and wrote sentimental and humorous verse representative of the time; illustrated by famed illustrator Howard Chandler Christy, famous for his "Christy girls", similar to the Gibson girl developed by Charles Dana Gibson.

Described by the publisher as .."a long poem in the grand tradition...."(286 pages!) on the dust jacket. From a private collection, inscribed on the first page to the owner, in 1938. The binding is still intact, the dust jacket is fraying.