Books published by publisher George H. Doran company

FOLDOUT BLACK AND RED MAP IS PRESENT IN BACK OF BOOK. This book is the rarest and most preferred issue with the Kennington decorated endleaves which had been designed for the 1926 issue of the great SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. This edition has the additional plates and illustrations. This rare issue with 24 illustrations on full-page plates and with 18 black and whit line cuts from the 1926 SEVEN PILLARS not in any other issue or edition of REVOLT IN THE DESERT. Copies of this book with the additional decorations and illustrations are not often found anywhere!

After becoming a renowned author, Bianco wrote numerous other children's books, with her son becoming the namesake of one of them, 1925's Poor Cecco: The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who Was the Jolliest Toy in the House Until He Went Out to Explore the World—a distinguished book that belies its somewhat priggish subtitle and is arguably better entitled than The Velveteen Rabbit to status as a classic. This lively adventure story, virtually a novel for children, is a brilliant exception to the sentimentality of Bianco's more famous book. Each of the many characters who populate the nursery toy cupboard is a distinct and amusing personality. Their interactions with each other and with the human, animal, and toy members of the world beyond it, whom they encounter on their quest for adventure/search for a lost friend, are delineated with understated humor. The relationship between the wooden dog Cecco, a natural leader, and Jensina, a highly independent and spirited wooden doll, is both subtle and funny. Superb illustrations by Arthur Rackham are a perfect complement to the narrative. While the publisher probably found it more practical to promote the shorter Velveteen Rabbit, Cecco's celebrated illustrator may have assured its survival in the catalogues of rare book dealers despite its undeserved literary obscurity.

Example in this ebookCHAPTER IA BUSHER'S LETTERS HOMETerre Haute, Indiana, September 6.Friend Al: Well, Al old pal I suppose you seen in the paper where I been sold to the White Sox. Believe me Al it comes as a surprise to me and I bet it did to all you good old pals down home. You could of knocked me over with a feather when the old man come up to me and says Jack I've sold you to the Chicago Americans.I didn't have no idea that anything like that was coming off. For five minutes I was just dum and couldn't say a word.He says We aren't getting what you are worth but I want you to go up to that big league and show those birds that there is a Central League on the map. He says Go and pitch the ball you been pitching down here and there won't be nothing to it. He says All you need is the nerve and Walsh or no one else won't have nothing on you.So I says I would do the best I could and I thanked him for the treatment I got in Terre Haute. They always was good to me here and though I did more than my share I always felt that my work was appresiated. We are finishing second and I done most of it. I can't help but be proud of my first year's record in professional baseball and you know I am not boasting when I say that Al.Well Al it will seem funny to be up there in the big show when I never was really in a big city before. But I guess I seen enough of life not to be scared of the high buildings eh Al?I will just give them what I got and if they don't like it they can send me back to the old Central and I will be perfectly satisfied.I didn't know anybody was looking me over, but one of the boys told me that Jack Doyle the White Sox scout was down here looking at me when Grand Rapids was here. I beat them twice in that serious. You know Grand Rapids never had a chance with me when I was right. I shut them out in the first game and they got one run in the second on account of Flynn misjuging that fly ball. Anyway Doyle liked my work and he wired Comiskey to buy me. Comiskey come back with an offer and they excepted it. I don't know how much they got but anyway I am sold to the big league and believe me Al I will make good.Well Al I will be home in a few days and we will have some of the good old times. Regards to all the boys and tell them I am still their pal and not all swelled up over this big league business. Your pal, Jack.To be continue in this ebook

IN THE PREFACE TO THIS BOOK, THE AUTHOR NOTES THAT THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS MOST OFTEN ASKED CONCERNING THIS STORY: (1)ARE THEY ACTUAL LETTERS OR COPIES OF ACTUAL LETERS? AND (2) WHO IS THE ORIGINAL OF JACK KEEFE? lARDNER ANSWERS THESE IN TURN: (1) THESE ARE ACTUAL LETTERS OF A SISTER-IN-LAW OF HIS LIVING IN INDIANAPOLIS, AND (2) THE AUTHOR DECLINES TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, " AS A REPLY WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE BOYS AND GIRLS FROM GUESSING, AND THEIR GUESSES HAVE GIVEN ME MANY A THRILL." AT LAST HE FACETIOUSLY REVEALS THE "TRUE" ANSWER: THE ORIGINAL OF JACK KEEFE IS NOT A BOALL PLAYER AT ALL, BUT JANE ADDAMS OF HULL HOUSE, A FORMER FOLLIES GIRL. BY THE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK PROSE OF THE AUTHOR IN THIS PREFACE, WE GET A PRETTY CLEAR PICTURE OF HIS DOWN-TO-EARTH SENSE OF HUMOR, SO EVIDENT IN HIS WRITINGS.