Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1891. First edition. 12mo. With original James Whitcomb Riley five stanza holograph poem, serving as a humorous presentation of the above volume , on a folded 12mo leaf mounted to front fly leaf. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait. Original gilt-pictorial two-tone cloth, covers warped, corners rubbed, other light wear to extremities; lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; marginal dampstains at rear, text lightly toned. BAL 16572, First state.