The Children

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 7x5x1. First edition ("1" on last page). No jacket. Pencil name on front endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. 346 pp. The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.