Riley Songs O'Cheer

Indianapolis: The Bobs-Merrill Company, 1905. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good. Will VAWATER. First edition, first printing (BAL 16671). 12mo; 196pp; red cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and framer vignette to front; gilt top edge; color frontispiece; b7w illustrations throughout; sunning to spine, bumping to corners and light scuffing to edges, a few smudges to pages; 1" closed tear to page edge 13/14; very good. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) a native of Indiana was a popular American poet in his life-time and known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poet".