RILEY JAMES WHITCOMB The Old Swimmin hole and Leven More Poe

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RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. "The Old Swimmin'-hole," and 'Leven More Poems, By Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. Title printed in red. 12mo, original buff wrappers printed in red, mild tanning, vertical crease to rear wrapper; Estelle Doheny bookplate on front free endpaper; preserved in cloth chemise and ornately decorated green calf gilt slipcase. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt, 1883

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first edition of the author's first book. A collection of "Hoosier dialect poems" that had appeared pseudonymously in the Indianapolis Journal. A remarkable survival of this fragile book. BAL 16525.