1917 original hardcover

"Printed exclusively for the members of
 The Bibliophile Society", copy of

VERSE AND PROSE  by Eugene Field
(From the George H. Yenowine Collection
of Books and Manuscripts)

edited by Henry H. Harper,
with intro by William Trent

Large hardcover, clean pages,
tightly bound. Many facsimile manuscripts
and handwritten samples, illustrations, etc.

Half vellum spine on boards.

Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse.[7] Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, among the most famous of which are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "The Duel" (which is perhaps better known as "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"). Equally famous is his poem about the death of a child, "Little Boy Blue". Field also published a number of short stories, including "The Holy Cross" and "Daniel and the Devil."

The Dinky Bird by Maxfield Parrish, one of eight color plates from the 1904 collection Poems of Childhood[8]

The volume, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, was published posthumously with an introduction by Field's brother, Roswell Martin Field in 1896.[9]

Field died in Chicago of a heart attack at the age of 45.[10] He is buried at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, Illinois.[11] Slason Thompson's 1901 biography of Field states that he was originally buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago,[12] but his son-in-law, Senior Warden of the Church of the Holy Comforter, had him reinterred on March 7, 1926