The Pike County Ballads by Hay, John - 1912

Boston: Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 167. Owner's bookplate on pastedown, spine faded, o/w VG.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Wyeth, N. C.. Ex-library copy that's been reinforced with tapes to inside hinges. 8 color plates by N. C. Wyeth in good condition. Color paste down on cover has 1/2" chip upper corner. Size: Square 8vo

James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth stamped in gilt; beveled edges, brown pastedowns and endpapers. The volume is lightly edge rubbed and the gently toned spine has a vertical crease running its length. The interior is in excellent condition with lightly toned leaves, and an erasure and small (1/16") abrasion on the front endpaper. The author served as a personal assistant to president Lincoln and was a Secretary of State in the administrations of McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. This collection contains " and "Jim Bludso of the Praire Belle".

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

167 pages. John Hay, an American Statesman and Author, worked along side President Lincoln as his private secretary. He rose as an ambassador and eventually served as Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and T Roosevelt. Pike County Ballads - written in the dialect of Pike County, Illinois, where Hay went to school as a child - was published (with other Hay poetry) as a book in 1871,brought Hayes great success. Hay, along with John Nickolay another secretary to President Lincoln, also published a 10 volume biography of Lincoln in 1890. This book is well worn, and well read, though the green cloth covers with beveled edges and gold gilt lettering still stand out. Pages are mostly clean and unmarked, but a few have some staining.

Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very nice copy of the first edition. Original brown cloth stamped in brown, large color pictorial label to upper cover. Front endpapers have a bookplate, and a printed portrait of the author with biographical note, likely from a magazine, both mounted.Illustrated By N.C. Wyeth.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Book. Illus. by N. C. Wyeth. NVG. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. Book has wear to the cover. All plates are present..