Buy this book on-line Foley, James W : Boys and Girls: The Verses of James W. FoleyE. P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1913
Copyright deposit copy. Original publisher's green cloth binding with brown dust wrapper. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 239 pages, complete. Sixteen plates, complete (frontispiece is in color; the rest are black and white). Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Deposit slip tipped in on front pastedown and dated 1917. Covers and pages of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is clean and intact except for a small bit of wear on the spine. Dust wrapper also has a couple advertisements for other publications by James T. Foley. James W. Foley (1874-1939) was an American poet from North Dakota. Boys and Girls is a collection of poems by Foley that center upon the theme of childhood. The poems vary in tone and subject. "A Discouraged Kindergartner" takes a comedic tone from the point of view of said kindergartner; "Song of Summer Days" conveys a sense of childhood nostalgia in the country; "The Travels of Mortimer Brown" follows the adventures of one boy when he is sent to run some errands; and "The Lost Heart" contemplates and mourns the loss of innocence and childhood. 114 poems total.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Foley, James W : Boys and Girls: The Verses of James W. Foley. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, livres rares, livres d'occasion, used books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |