Old & Rare
Author: Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator: Anna Zinkeisen
STRATTON-PORTER, Gene. Laddie. A True Blue Story. Illustrations by Herman Pfeifer. Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company, 1914. 12mo, [viii] 603pp. Blue boards stamped in white with embossed design on front board. Blue and white endpapers; four full-color plates. An internally bright, clean copy, with slight rubbing around board edges, slight warping to front board, in publisher's original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, sunned and soiled across front, spine and rear, missing a 4" section at the bottom of spine, with slight chipping and creasing around the edges).
First Edition.This charming story is told by "Little Sister" a young girl who loves to learn, but has no patience with schools. Her ideal classroom is nature itself. Join her as she learns about the world and her place in it.