LITTLE WILLIE.
by Field, Eugene
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Field's verse about his little boy Willie who "Cuddled close beside me when / He used to wet the bed". A charming note on the last page states that: "Field said his wife took the boy away on a visit, and he found, in their absence, he couldn't sleep till he got up and poured hot water on his shirt."
This is one of 2 editions noted by the BAL as possibly being a first or second edition of this classic "The first formal and authorized publication of this poem, so far as BAL had been able to determine, is in Slason Thompson's Life of Eugene Field, New York, 1927, pp. 159-160, where it appears with the following statement: It has never before appeared between the covers of a book regularly published, although thousands of copies have been printed and circulated sub rosa....Thompson appears not to exaggerate when he states that 'thousands of copies have been printed and circulated.' Out of this mass the following printings have some claim to recognition. The order as given is wholly arbitrary." [BAL 5769]. RARE.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97253
- Title
- LITTLE WILLIE.
- Author
- Field, Eugene
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Printed at the end of the text is the date: October 19, 1895.
- Date Published
- 1895.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; EUGENE FIELD; VERSE; LITTLE WILLIE; SALMON COLORED DECORATED INITIALS; BED WETTING; NINETEENTH CENTURY POET; 19TH CENTURY POET; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; CHILDREN; VIGNETTE ILLUSTRATION.
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