Children of the Morning

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +. 305pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Orange-yellow cloth over boards. Green and white checkered-patterned endpapers. With general light soiling to the spine and boards, and several small stains to front and rear board. Some moderate rubbing and fraying to the extremities. Two previous owners' names in pen, and a very small numerical stamp, on the front endpaper. Same numerical ink stamp in top fore-edge corner of front flyleaf. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist, p. 81 (London printing). A group of unsupervised children are shipwrecked off the coast of South America and left to develop their own civilization. The theme of George's novel predates William Golding's "Lord of the Flies.