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Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth with pictorial illustration of youth fishing blocked in tan and black to front board, vignette of stag on spine, with titles blocked in gold to both. ix, 363pp. with 8 full page plates and numerous other black and white vignettes within the text. **CONDITION: Near Fine. Hinges and joints in order. Generally very clean boards with some foxing to head of text block only. One bottom corner with slight rubbing. Gift inscription, dated April, 1901 to ffep. in old ink. Stock number in blue ink stamped to top inside rear pastedown. **Described as "vintage adventure," this tale of Massachusetts North Shore prep school boys summering (soon to be off to college) nominally begins at Andover Academy. Clubs are made up of six boys apiece, and a schedule of camp-fare Olympics is organized with boating, fishing and hunting trials, somewhere in the backwoods of New York, at a lodge on Mink Lake's Squirrel Island. No expense is spared in preparation; an extra lodge must be built, and boats purchased. This leads to the first adventure, as Perry Langdon, son of a well-to-do New York industrialist, has a scrape with thieves determined to relieve him of his silver dollars meant for the purchase of vessels. Perry manages a manful escape despite great danger. (And luckily his dad's yacht is nearby to whisk him to safety.) A panther eludes the hunt, and another mysterious stranger, primed with clever disguises, makes his way towards the encampment... AUTHOR Gordon W. Parker (b.1875). (AMJ)
Ref: HUNT 9734
$225.00