A Child-World

Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. First American Edition. [POETRY]. First American edition, later printing. 12mo (7 ¼" x 5"); 209pp + [11]pp publisher's ads; bright red cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and author on front with a gilt-ruled border, gilt vining and lettering on spine; top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; fp and one additional plate; spine lightly sunned; fine. First printed in England in 1896. This first American edition has the printer's error: Proem on page 11, but contents immediately follow, and sections are numbered. Page 121 final line battered: I can not... (BAL 16622).

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was a popular poet from Indiana. He is often called the "Children's Poet" or "Hoosier Poet" as his home state was Indiana. His poems about children and places are often sentimental.