Author: Eugene Field (Collected and Edited by Joseph G. Brown)
Title: A Little Book of Tribune Verse. A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay
Publication Information: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , New York; Copyright 1901 by Tandy, Wheeler & Co.
Call #: 811 F45412
Book Size:
Cover: Blue green cloth cover; front cover has "A Little Book of Tribune Verse" embossed gold on top; "Eugene Field" embossed gold (different font) at the bottom of the front cover; center medallion has a geometric floral design, embossed, gilt, and it looks like some paint/color had been added in hunter green and purple in the flowers. Back cover: plain. Spine: title and "Field" embossed gold at the top of the spine, with floral/geometric design parallel to front cover; "Grosset & Dunlap" embossed gold bottom of spine with design line around it.
Inside Book Covers: plain beige pages
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: frontispiece opposite the title page a female portrait (note period clothes), "Allyn Wolcott Paliner '06" in lower left corner (artist, presumably). Underneath portrait: "All things radiant and rare, all things tender and sweet, hasten, O Princess fair, to fall in delight at thy feet."
Comments:
- note the categories here: "Poems of Childhood"; "Poems of the People"; "Western Verse" ; "Parodies, etc."
- Introduction by Joseph G. brown Denver March 28 th, 1901
- Each poem is dated
- Ads in the back of the volume: "Books on Nature Study by Charles G.D. Roberts. Handsomely bound in cloth. Price 75 cents per volume postpaid. Note descriptions for each text, published by Grosset & Dunlap
- Note ad: "Famous Copyright Books in Popular Priced Editions" - "Reissues of great literary success of the time, library size, printed on excellent paper" - most of them "finely illustrated"; "Full and handsomely bound in cloth. "Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid". Note the texts listed here: Nedra by George B. McCutcheon; Power Lot by Sarah P. McLean; My Mamie Rose by Owen Kildare; John Burt by Frederick Upham Adams; The Heart Line by Gelett Burgess
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- American Poetry
- Advertising and Marketing
