Benj Johnson Boone (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library with typical marks, shelf wear, pages toned; a solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 205740.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Some wear to the cover edges and spine; pages tanned; name inside; a good solid copy of an old book. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 191530.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Green hardcover, ex-library marks, overall still good. We ship fast.

paperback. Condition: as new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 50 pages. facsimile reprint of the first edition of the first book by James Whitcomb Riley. Originally published in 1883 by George C. Hitt & Co. plain brown wrappers over dust jacket. small inked out white sticker on rear inner flap of brown wrapper.…

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full two toned green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine, slightly soiled and light wear to the extremities. Previous owner's name and date on the front free endpaper, newspaper clipping glued to the front paste down. Front cover spotted from spills. Overall in FAIR condition only. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Riley, J.W. 1st. ed. Reprinted from the 1883 edition.facsimile reprint. g.-v.g. wrappers. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in two tone green cloth. No mention of "Flying Islands in the Night" Or "An Old Sweetheart of Mine". Clean, bright tight copy with a bump to the top front board and some rubbing to the spine extremities.

Condition: Very good. Facsimile reprint. Paper bound. Very good condition. Slight closed tear top of spine. Internally clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original burgundy and tan cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges of covers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Publisher's catalogue for 1897 at rear. xvi,90[+plates][+cat.]pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good. First Edition, 1891, with a unique original dust jacket made of red cloth, with gilt print on the spine. There is some fading to the spine of the red dust jacket. The dust jacket is rare. There is a name on an inside blank page, and there are several dots on the half title page. Otherwise minimal wear and no writing. Ships within 24 hours.…

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full two toned brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine, slightly soiled and light wear to the extremities. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 1910 reprint, jacket with one and a half inch tear along the top edge of the spine, otherwise in very good condition, book in very good + condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile edition as pictured very good condition soft cover in a dust jacket, 50 pages , tiny spine tears gently read clean pages. Published in 1920 by Marshall Fields as a souvenir of their 1920 book show in Chicago.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Printing. first edition, 2nd printing, remnants of the jacket with wear along the spine and chipping along the top edge, the wraps are worn, but present. Author's first book, pages are untrimmed, book with wear at the head and tail of the spine.…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. Facsimile reprint. 50p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Early Reprint. Sixth Edition (stated), very nice small hardcover with decorated paper onn baords and about a 1-1/2' strip of red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations (bright). Book with minor whelfwear.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Softcover. 16mo. 6 3/8" x 4 7/16". 50pp. Folded white wrappers with tan parchment paper dust-jacket, both with title printed in red. Author's first book with twelve poems mainly dealing with memories of childhood. Written in "Hoosier" dialect. Publishers note indicates that some of the poems originally appeared in the Indianapolis Journal. White wrappers are very clean and nice with one tiny edge tear; dust jacket has light edge wear, some short edge tears and delicate corner. This copy is missing the "W" from "William" on page 41 but has printed wrappers on laid paper with horizontal chain lines as called for in Bal 16525.…

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True First Edition, title page inserted, P.41, stanza 4, line 1, "William", printed on laid paper with a scant inch between the horizontal wire marks. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dust wrapper of brown pulp paper, the printed cream inner wrappers printed the same as the title page are darkened and toned with small chips at spine ends, inner white wrapper attached to book lovely and white. Rear blank top corner crease, a few widely scattered small spots of toning throughout. With the ownership name in pencil front end page of C. M. Malott, Carol Ann Macy Malott, wife of Volney T. Malott, known as the Dean of Indiana banking and, as President of the Board of Directors of Crown Hill Cemetery, instrumental in securing Riley's burial site at the Cemetery's highest elevation. James Whitcomb Riley's first published book, Russo, pp. 3-6. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.…

Wraps - Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Printing, The famous book collector, H. Bradley Martin's copy with his bookplate also bookplate of Arthur Swann, 50pp., printed wraps in rare printed dust jacket with some chipping at head and tail of jacket's spine and tape mends inside jacket, a very scarce author's first book housed within a cloth covered clamshell.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1891 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 117 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 117.…

First edition. First edition. Original two-toned cloth. Scarce James Whitcomb Riley title, with extensive presentation inscriptiion by the author on prelim page which has been attached to the original stub, "To Jess C. Millikan- From his old Compatriot, the 'Truthful' - James Whitcomb Riley," and below that a quotation from another book. With the decorative bookplate of William F. Gable (of Gable Department Store fame). With early bookseller description on separate card laid in. Very good.…