Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 512
RILEY, James Whitcomb (1849?1916). ?The Old Swimmin??Hole,?...
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RILEY, James Whitcomb (1849?1916). ?The Old Swimmin??Hole,? and ?Leven more poems, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883. 12mo. Title?page printed in red. Original vegetable vellum wrapper printed in red folded over an inner wrapper (covers soiled, spine discretely repaired); folding cloth chemise; morocco? backed slipcase (spine sunned). FIRST EDITION printed on laid paper with horizontal chain lines as BAL notes this being the first true edition. THE AUTHOR?S FIRST BOOK that included a collection of poems in the Hoosier dialect which first appeared in the Indianapolis Journal under the pseudonym of Benjamin F. Johnson. BAL 16525.
