Books with author James Whitcomb

Clean decorated American trade binding with decorations to cover and pages by Margaret Armstrong; illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Clean green cloth boards with clean oval portrait of "Aunt Mary" on cover with white decoration around the portrait, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear to cloth, hint of slighestt wear to white decoration, all gold lettering unchipped. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with clean beautifully decorated endpapers. Previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of first blank page. Frontispiece illustration with clean tissue guard. All pages are decorated.

Excerpt from Little Orphan AnnieTo all the little children - The monesyand sad ones; The sober and the 511213. Ones; the boisterous and glad ones; The good (figs - fies, the good ones, too; and all the lovely bad ones.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.The contents of this beautiful book include: Little Orphant Annie, The Raggedy Man, Curly Locks, The Funny Little Fellow, The Happy Little Cripple, The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me, The Nine Little Goblins, Time Of Clearer Twitterings, The Circus-Day Parade, The Lugubrious Whing-Whang, Waitin' Fer The Cat To Die, Naughty Claude, The Pixy People, The Bear Story and many more.

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb RileyJames Whitcomb Riley 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. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental.This collection includes the following:Pipes O'Pan at ZekesburyThe Book of Joyous ChildrenAfterwhilesRiley Songs of HomeRiley Love-LyricsA Defective Santa ClausSongs of FriendshipAn Old Sweetheart of MineNye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns)The Old Soldiers StoryRubaiyat of Doc SifersNeghborly Poems and Dialect SketchesLittle Orphan Annie and Billy Miller's Circus-ShowHome Again With MeRiley Farm-RhymesA Child-WorldRiley Child-Rhymes

15 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley A Child WorldA defective Santa ClausAfterwhilesAn Old Sweetheart of MineGreen Fields and Running BrooksNye and Riley's Wit and HumorPipes Opan At ZekesburyRiley Child RhymesRiley Farm RhymesRiley Love LyricsRiley Songs Of HomeRubaiyat Of Doc sifersSongs Of FriendshipThe Books of Joyous ChildrenThe Old Soldiers Story

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