Display Signed Copies Only Display All Inventory on Abebooks

Available Copies from Independent Booksellers

Field, Eugene; Bixby, William K. (Note). Two Poems by Eugene Field: Reproduced from the Original MSS.. Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby, Boston, MA?, 1922.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Limited Edition, one of 250 copies. "Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby." Printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press. Original publisher's blue paper boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative initials ("WKB") on front cover. 8" x 10 1/2." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Pages unopened. Pages are very clean and intact except for some age toning and faint dampstaining limited to bottom margins (not affecting text). Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight wear to head and tail of spine, minuscule rubbing, and a faint dampstaining along bottom edges of front and back. A Fine copy. A collection of two poems by Eugene Field, "Seein' Things at Night" and "To M. L. Gray." Printed in facsimile from the original manuscript. Eugene Field, Sr. (1850-1895) was an American author. He became well-known for his essays and children's poetry. Back colophon: "Two hundred and fifty copies of "Two Poems by Eugene Field" were printed for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston in April 1922."

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Field, Eugene. Two Poems.Reproduced from the Original MSS. See'n Things at Night & To M.L. Gray. Printed for W.K. Bixby [at the Merrymount Press], [Boston, Mass.], 1922.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 250 copies. 4to. Inscribed by Bixby on ffep to Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Homer t Bolton Landing.

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Field, Eugene. Two Poems By Eugene Field Reproduced from the Original Manuscript. Merrymount Press Boston, 1922.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8 in. x 10 1/4 in. One of 250 copies printed for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike. Green cloth binding, with gilt initials "WKB" on cover; gilt titling on black spine. Damp staining and wear to spine. Bookplate of Wm G. Mather (1857-1951), a Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector. Inscribed to Mather by Bixby on front fly leaf.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

Field, Eugene. Two Poems. Privately Printed By W. K. Bixby/Merrymount Press, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine in blue paper boards with black cloth spine. Facsimiles of two poems written by Fields from the original manuscripts--'Seein' Things at Night' &'To M.L. Gray'. Poetry

Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.