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2634 Total Pp. 8vo. Complete in 12 volumes. Publisher's green buckram, gilt upper leaf edges, gilt title stamped on spines, front covers decorated with gilt frame at board edges and floral ornament at center, rear boards with blind stamped borders, tissue guarded frontispieces, black/red ink stamped title pages. Ownership name/address stamp, verso front board of each volume. Vol. (V#), Title(s), pages (p.). V1. A Little Book of Western Verse, 205 p. V2. A Little Book of Profitable Tales, 290 p. V3. Second Book of Verse, 211 p. V4. Poems of Childhood, 228 p. V5. The Holy Cross and Other Tales, 293 p. V6. Echoes from the Sabine Farm, 141 p. V7. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, 253 p. V8. The House - An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and his Wife Alice, 268 p. V9. Songs and Other Verse, 217 p. V10. Second Book of Tales, 314 p. V11-12. Sharps and Flats, 254 p, 274 p. Dimensions: 1-1.13 each (overall 13.75) W x 5.25 D x 7.75 H inches. Approx. weight: 12 pounds, 10 ounces. Provenance: Henry Littleton Hinman (1865-1957), an Oakland businessman and civic leader. Founder of Merchants Express, a pioneering shipping company between Oakland and San Francisco. Director and treasurer for the highway district which built the "Broadway Low Level Tunnel," now know as the Caldecott Tunnel. See last image. About the author and works: Eugene Field (1850-1895) was an American author known for his humorous essays and children's poetry. Interested in many subjects and unable to decide what to do with his life, Field attended three colleges-Williams College, Knox College, and University of Missouri-tried his hand at acting, law, and journalism, and traveled Europe before meeting his wife and becoming city editor for the St. Joseph Gazette in St. Joseph, Missouri. He wrote and edited for several newspapers, including the Denver Tribune. From his Tribune column, "Odds and Ends," he gathered comic paragraphs to form his first book, The Tribune Primer (1882), journalistic joking in the tradition of American humorists Artemus ward and Josh Billings. These squibs served as apprentice work for his "Sharps and Flats" column in the Chicago Morning News (renamed the Record in 1890). Her Field satirized the cultural pretentions of the newly rich Chicago meat barons. A Little Book of Western Verse (1889), drawn in part from his column, included poems in Pike county dialect after the manner of Bret Harte and John Hay, verses for children in an affected Old English dialect, translations of Horace, and the well-known "Little Boy Blue" and "Dutch Lullaby" ("Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"). Field's collected works in 10 volumes were published the year after his death, and two more volumes were added in 1900. He died of a heart-attack at 45. (Britannica) Search term: Works. CONDITION NOTES: Very good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. a 5 books light damp stained cloth at heel of a few books and extended to front board of 2, 1 book interior heel corner also damp stained at lead page blanks only, a couple of boards indented, 1 bumped spine heel, spine crown/heel cloth starting at corner edges, light sporadic rubbed cloth covers, light age-toned text pages), strong square spines/tight bindings, clean end papers and text. A nice set. Seller Inventory # 002933
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