When She Was about Sixteen de Riley, James Whitcomb - 1911

Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. (w/o dj) A clean tightly bound hardcover copy without jacket. Grey cloth covered boards separating from block at head of spine front hinge only. Pencil PON on ffep. Light edge wear and some threads showing at corners. Unmarked interior, several small stains to cloth. .

Grosset & Dunlap, 1911. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His other famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) was an American artist and illustrator famous for the "Christy Girl", similar to a "Gibson Girl".

Not Stated: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911 "Another tale of the 'airly days' when hearts beat quite a warmly as they do now." (Now being 1911). Grosset reprint of Bobbs-Merrill original. Condition notes - unnumbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, duo tone frontis. Each page is either an illustration or text with a lovely pink grape arbor border; t.e. lt tanned, gift inscription to ffep. Cover: orange, burgundy, titles front, plain spine; modest shelfwear, extrems worn, t.e. of spine sunned. DJ: unclipped, white, gold border w/ Gibson girl and white titles front, lovely tribute to Riley back, black titles spine; moderate edge/shelfwear w/ small chips, crinkles, rubbing w/loss of titles to spine.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. VG. 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration & a color pictorial pastedown plate to the front board by Howard Chandle r Christy. Ills with 43 full page tinted plates by Christy, small 4to size, unpaginated. A VG copy, First flyleaf has been excised else clea n, bright & unmarked inside. The cloth covers have a mild rub to the s pine tips and some light scattered dust soiling to the front board but overall a clean, tight attractive copy. .

No Place: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.. Very Good. (1911). Hardcover. -Riley, James Whitcomb; illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN. (No Place): The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1911). 9 ¾” x 7 ¼,” green boards with color pictorial label to the front cover and gilt printing. The spine and cover edges are rubbed and frayed. The front hinge is cracked. The contents are bright and complete. About Very Good. .

Bobbs Merrill. Indianapolis, 1911 Book size about 7 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches with unnumbered pages. Bound in olive green cloth with pale green spine lettering and full front cover color illustrated paste-on with deeply impressed gilt lettering. Printed on thick heavy coated paper. Illustrated with full page drawings on every other page by Howard Chandler Christy. One of those beautiful books published for the gift market in that era. Damp mark on the rear cover; slight wear. A clean and unmarked book. NEAR FINE. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1911. Book. Illus. by Howard Chandler Christy. VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Olive cloth, spine panel lettered in white, with color front cover pastedown illus. lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, mild foxing to portions of front cover pastedown. Illus. throughout in two-color black and orange. Firm binding, clean interior. Nicely preserved copy..

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1911

Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Front hinge cracked, very good.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. 1st printing; green c w/gilt lettering and pictorial inset on front, in protective mylar wrap; lovely illustrated plates throughout; iunpaginated. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Howard Chandler Christy. 4 vo.