Riley benjamin f (77 risultati)

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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16Mo Softcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1910 facsimile of Riley's 1883 debut collection. 50pp; some folio pages are uncut. Softcover with two jackets. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall book shelf/timewear, coverwear, foxing on endpapers and textblock edges; moderate jacketwear, small chip on upper corner of outer jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Cover. Good Hardcover, no dustjacket, foxing on endpapers, illustrated.

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HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green boards with gilt title. General soiling and wear to edges/corners. Pages are very good, previous owner's name on the front endpage.

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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first state. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and name in ink on front endpapers (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded. 1891 Hard Cover. ix, [4] 90 pp. Gilt titles, top edge gilt. "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" and 'leven more poems. (1849?1916). An Indiana poet who wrote about his happy boyhood memories, James Whitcomb Riley is the author of verses that recapture the simple good times of another era. Riley has never been regarded as a great poet, but his work preserves the American past. Riley was born on Oct. 7, 1849, in Greenfield, Ind. He was the third of six children of Reuben A. Riley, a lawyer and orator. The only subject that interested him in school was reading, and he left school when he was 16. He traveled for a time with a company of sign painters and with a medicine-show company. Back in Greenfield he worked on the local paper and then took a job as a reporter in Anderson, Ind. There he attracted attention by carrying out a literary hoax. Riley felt that the public would acclaim almost any work if its author were famous. He wrote a poem called Leonainie in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. The Kokomo Dispatch printed it as an unpublished Poe masterpiece. After scholars asked to see the original Poe manuscript, Riley revealed the hoax. Riley next worked for the Indianapolis Journal for eight years. He contributed poems to the paper under a pen name, Benj. F. Johnson of Boone, posing as a farmer with a gift for turning his rustic language into pleasing verse. The Boone poems were collected in a little paperback volume of 50 pages as The Old Swimmin? Hole and ?Leven More Poems, published in 1883. Within a few years Riley had gained national fame with his books of verse and prose sketches. He became a platform entertainer, giving humorous readings from his own works. He was successful in this as well. Riley never married. He maintained a home in Indianapolis, where close friends lived with him. He died in Indianapolis on July 22, 1916. Riley?s other books include Afterwhiles (1887); Pipes o? Pan at Zekesbury (1888); Old-Fashioned Roses (1888); Rhymes of Childhood (1890); Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893); Armazindy (1894); A Child-World (1896); An Old Sweetheart of Mine (1902); and Out to Old Aunt Mary?s (1903). An edition of his poems, complete in six volumes, was published in 1913.…

Full title - MAKERS AND ROMANCE OF ALABAMA HISTORY EMBRACING SKETCHES OF THE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN LARGELY INSTRUMENTAL IN SHAPING THE POLICIES AND IN MOLDING THE CONDITIONS IN THE RAPID GROWTH OF ALABAMA - TOGETHER WITH THE THRILLING AND ROMANTIC SCENES WITH WHICH OUR HISTORY IS RESPLENDENT. Early edition - no publisher imprint or copyright date provided but presumably, per OCLC, either 1914 or 1915. [4], vii-xvi, 1-618 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 14.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Purple cloth lightly rubbed; mild sunning to spine; gilt stamping to front board and spine remains bright; boards' top fore-edge corners bumped with interior leaves lightly affected likewise. Light toning and some soiling to text block edges; front free endpaper's top fore-edge corner soiled with tear and impression of past bookseller's pencil price; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Still an attractive very good copy. President of Birmingham, Alabama's Howard College (now Samford University) from 1888 to 1893 and editor of the Alabama Baptist newspaper, Benjamin Franklin Riley (1845-1925) authored at least eleven books including this uncommon tome which features biographies of seventy-seven notable Alabamans and fifty short essays on various facets of early Alabama history.…