[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse Fine Bindings Ball received his medical degree

Ball received his medical degree from Iowa State University in 1884

Rudge from 1925 to 1932

Some browning to covers

Tan buckram with dark green decoration and gilt lettering to front cover

Some light rubbing to edges and joints (no cracks

[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse Fine Bindings Ball received his medical degreeField, Eugene. A Little Book of Western Verse. [Privately Printed for Subscribers,] 1889. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is #219. A signed, holograph poem by Field on the second flyleaf, with a small colored sketch of a girl (presumably the one mentioned in the poem): The garden may wither, the silver bird fly But what careth my little precious, or I? From her pathway of flowers that in springtime upstart She walketh the tenderer way in my