Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley (Ninth Thousand, Illustrated), 1890 📜🕰️🏡 Mary Thacher Higginson [Signature of Gerald Posner]

[Signature of Gerald Posner]

Title: The Ruling Passion

a quality that Zepeda uses to great effect in "Chicken Farm"

and educator

capturing the essence of rural American life and its simple pleasures

Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley (Ninth Thousand, Illustrated), 1890 📜🕰️🏡 Mary Thacher Higginson [Signature of Gerald Posner]1. Introduction This listing is for a vintage printing of "Afterwhiles" by the renowned "Hoosier Poet" James Whitcomb Riley. This Ninth Thousand edition, published by Bowen Merrill Co. in 1890, offers a collection of poems that celebrates rural Midwestern life and showcases the author's beloved sentimental style. The book features a decorative two tone binding and an illustrated frontispiece. 2. About the Book "Afterwhiles" is a collection of poems by