B.O.W.C. AND THE DODGE CLUB AUTHOR (DEMILLE, JAMES),

The Boys of Grand Pre School.

Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1871. G ex-library. Maroon embossed binding with gilt lettering on spine. Binding faded, foxing on tissue guard to frontis & title page. Label on spine, pocket on ft endpaper, otherwise no library markings or bad treatment as is so often true of library copies. Interior very good. Publisher ads of Oliver Optic, Elm Island Stories, Young Hunter's Library, Jutland Series, The Frontier Series, Charley Roberts Series, Helping Hand Series, Vacation Story-Books and The Proverb Series on endpapers. Wonderful frontis of man holding turnips out to donkey on the stairs with 3 boys pushing titled "Getting the Donkey Up Stairs". One of the boys at school has been scaring the younger boys with noises at night in the cupola and so there is a plot to scare him tonight with the donkey. Two other woodcuts. "Alas, the first day of a new term! What a horror it brings to the heart of a boy! Fresh from the green fields, from the blue sky, from the fragrant woods, the babbling book, the sounding shore, the lofty precipice, the bou nding wave, -- from all these he enters into the gloom, and darkness, and confinement of the school-room. Can there be any wonder that the fresh, young boyish heart should quail.Where is his life, in which of late he so exulted?.The first day at school for a boy is homesickness in its broadest sense.not merely a pining for one's actual home, but. also a yearning for pleasures that have fled, -- some lost grace of life, - - some sweet charm which has passed away." Thus leading to the antics of school boys past.

-- Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Book number: BOOKS036830I

Catalogue: Juvenile

DEMILLE, JAMES

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. Hardcover. Later printing. 291pp. Red cloth stamped in gold and black. Tissued frontispiece and seven illustrations. Tiny bookstore stamp to front pastedown endpaper, faint scrape to front free endpaper, spine panel a bit faded. A very good copy. "... one of the best 19th-century lost-race novels." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. Clute and Nicholls, 1999, p. 321.; Octavo.

-- Parigi Books

Book number: 17886

Catalogue: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: Fantasy Fantasy Antarctica South Pole Utopia Lost Race Lost World

[ORIGINAL INK SKETCH]. FLAGG, JAMES MONTGOMERY [1877 - 1960]. DEMILLE, WILLIAM C[HURCHILL. 1878 - 1955].,

"John - 'Ha! You Don't Deny It - You Love It Still!'" [from] "The STORK" by Wm. C. DeMille.

. Image: 9-7/8" x 15-1/2". INSCRIBED from Flagg to DeMille: "To Wm D. DeMille / From / James Montgomery Flagg." Single sheet, drawn recto only in black ink over a pencil sketch. Housed in a simple black frame, with off-white mat., VG copy.
¶ The Stork a one-act play by DeMille, ca post-1910. The New York City artist Flagg was the epitome of the 'bohemian' artist', who probably is best known today for his patriotic WWI recruiting poster of Uncle Sam, "I Want You".

-- Tavistock Books, ABAA

Book number: 34285