Beschreibung:

FIELD, Eugene (1850-1895). A Little Book of Profitable Tales . Chicago: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1889. With subscribers list tipped to title-page. Quarter morocco slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 177 of 250 copies, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FIELD TO HIS INTIMATE FRIEND GEORGE H. YENOWINE on the front free endpaper with a color ink sketch of a man at head: "Here's a birthday present fine For my dear friend Yenowine. If you ask how old is he, Lift his hat and you shall see. with very much love, Eugene Field Buena Park, Sept. 1894." Provenance : George H. Yenowine (inscription; bookplate); William Bixby (bookplate); Frank J. Hogan (bookplate). BAL 5738. -- A Little Book of Western Verse . Chicago: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1889. Quarter morocco slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 175 of 250 copies. Provenance : EUGENE FIELD (his bookplate). BAL 5739. -- With Trumpet and Drum . New York: Charles Scribner's, 1892. Trade issue. BAL 5750. -- Second Book of Verse . Chicago: Melville E. Stone, 1892. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper (there was also a japan vellum issue). BAL 5751. -- The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac . New York: Charles Scribner's, 1896. First state. BAL 5771. -- Songs and Other Verse . New York: Charles Scribner's, 1896. LIMITED EDITION, number 143 of 150 copies. BAL 5774. -- The Holy Cross and other Tales. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1896. Later edition. Together 6 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, 12 o and 8 o , original bindings. Provenance : Frederick W. Skiff (bookplates in some); Estelle Doheny (paper bookplates). A FINE COLLECTION. (7)