Cloth
1904 · New York
by FIELD, Eugene
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Later printing. Cloth. Fine. Maxfield PARRISH. Later printing, c. 1920. 8vo; x [ii], 199pp [1]; last leaf unopened; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers featuring a giant with a club astride a red lobster; color pictorial plate as title page; 8 color illustrated plates; fine. Eugene Field (1850-1895) was an American poet, known as the "poet of childhood". This volume a collection of his favorite childhood poems, in an exceptional condition. (Inventory #: 979)