AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE. Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Virginia Keep.

pp. 58 unnumbered pages +Plus 19 pages of color plates and marginal decorations in pink. 12mo. 230mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding lettered in gilt and decorated in light green, red, and color illustration of a woman. Spine lettered in gilt and decorated similarly. Cover is clean and color is rubbed and faded. Spine rubbed. Corners bumped. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. 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. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include 'Little Orphan Annie' and 'The Raggedy Man'. Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952)was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the 'Christy Girl' -a colorful and illustrious successor to the 'Gibson Girl' -who became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age era. NW60