From the title page: "Poem by Eugene Field (never before having appeared in type)". Gilt lettering front cover. Uncut page sides. Small stains to corners of front and rear end papers. Small tear to spine. Eugene Field wrote this poem to his friend William C. Buskett who was on his way to Kentucky to visit a young lady in whom he was interested. The poem begins: "In gallus old Kentucky where the grass is very blue, Where the liquor is the smoothest and the girls are fair and true."