Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress from the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light soiling and faint foxing to top of text block, white spine lettering nearly all rubbed away (although the white & black front cover illustration is virtually unblemished), vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Lute Hutton, San Diego, California); jacket is chipped at top of spine (extending just a bit into both the front and rear panels), spine age-toned and lightly spotted, small chips at upper corners, one tiny chip at top of rear panel]. (B&W frontispiece + 5 B&W illustrated plates) The final entry in the author's famed "Lawrenceville Stories," this one presenting "the joyous story of a sixteen-year-old Lawrenceville schoolboy, his first contacts with the baffling fair sex, his attainment of wisdom through the comic-tragedies of adolescence, his sentimental progress" etc. (ref. the book's subtitle). .