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A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley, with Autograph

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A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley, with Autograph

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Description

Title: A Child-World

By: James Whitcomb Riley

Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897

209 pages, catalog in rear

Volume 8

Decorated spine, in red cloth

Inscribed by Riley on flyleaf, “For / Joseph A. Stutsman, Esq. / With best greetings, his Old National Road neighbor / James Whitcomb Riley / Indianapolis, Oct. 9 / 1896.”

Also comes with postcard from author mentioning research into family history of one of his poems. To Stutsman from Riley, dated June 5, 1896, in which Riley thanks him “for your especial kindness in supplying me with the various whereabouts of our dear old friends the Loehrs.”

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