Red cloth-bound harback, gilt on front cover and top edge, bumping and rubbing to corners. Sewing visible at hinge, slight water damage to first few pages and and paste-down. Deckle fore edges and bottom edge. Stamp from previous owner on first free endpaper, frontispiece and tissue intact.
Volume five of six volume set. James Whitcomb Riley, an Indiana born poet, was active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and was endorsed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.