ANTIQUE BOOK - An Old Sweetheart of Mine, Riley James Whitcomb

Published 1902; possibly first edition although I couldn’t find a definitive answer online. In great shape for a book this old - pages are intact and glossy, no rips. Some wear to the corners of the book cover, as expected with age. A very sweet little book. An Old Sweetheart of Mine is a poem by James Whitcomb Riley, an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. The poem is dedicated to Riley’s first love, a girl he met at school, and about their school-time romance that grew in the marriage and happy life together. Each book page presents a separate piece of a romantic poem telling about a particular period or event in the poet's memory. It is a great poetic work about the flow of time and the transformation of love through the years of routine life.