Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Hatherell, William. First American edition. Light stain on front paste-down endpaper, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1896 Hard Cover. vi, 478 pp. Illustrated by William Hatherell. A story that traces the boyhood of a "man about town" - beginning at age five, in England, his trials and tribulations, on to becoming a young man. The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair and he was in sexless garments which were all he had and he was five and so though we are looking at him we must do it sideways lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his.