Accession number:
PML 186884
Published:
Indianapolis : George C. Hitt & Co., 1883.
Description:
50 pages ; 17 cm
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes:
First edition.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 green morocco slipcase.
"This series of Hoosier dialect poems, by James W. Riley, originally appeared in The Indianapolis Journal, over the pseudonym of Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone"--Publisher's note (page [3]).
Binding:
Beige wrappers printed in red.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: To Ben. S. Parker, with regards of J.W. Riley; author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: Hail and Farewell. Howdy-do, and then good-bye- mixes just like laugh and cry- Deaths and births, and worst and best/ Tangled their contrariest- Ev'ry jinglin' weddin-bell/ Sk[?] up some funeral knell.- Here's my shrug, and there's your sigh./ Howdy-do, and then good-bye!, Benj. F. Johnson, July 23, 83, Indianapolis, Ind.
Provenance:
Signed to Ben S. Parker; Carter Burden.
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