Illus Will Vawter (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Will Vawter, Illus (illustrator). First Edition.

Bright clean copy with formerly damaged exterior leather that has been trimmed and repasted. Now a bright clean reading copy. 5-1/4 x 8, unnumbered pp, b/w illus, brown endpapers. VeryGood unmarked copy with repaired binding & backstrip. Hardcover in brown leather flex boards w gilt titling, no jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: NONE. 188 clean unmarked pages. No dust jacket. Very small letters at top of rear endpaper. Dark green cloth boards with stamped red, gold and black illustration, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Broken gutter front endpapers. Wear at all corners, ends of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A Near Fine early twentieth century edition. Only very gently worn extremities. A previous owner short gift inscription on blank front free end-paper, dated 1911 (in Copperplate script). A delightful printed bookplate on inside cover, with an Emily Dickinson quote. Bright gilt decorations and titles; a clean and tight volume, no markings. Printed on glossy paper and filled with b/w illustrations throughout by W. Vawter (who illustrated eleven volumes of Riley's poems). Riley was known as the "Hoosier Poet". Beautiful edition. 188 pages. Protected in a mylar slip.

Condition: Very Good. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1926]. No edition statement, presumed First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth lettered in orange, color pictorial element mounted to upper cover, [14],169pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather scuffed at extremities with crown fraying, juvenile pencil ownership to front pastedown, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Warmly inscribed on front free endpaper: "To - Miss Ira Butler, In appreciation of her help and encouragement / Very sincerely / Minnie B. Mitchell / Greenfield, Indiana / May 3, 1926.".