Gene Stratton-Porter — Laddie: A True Blue Story

New York, Doubleday Page & Company, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally bright example of Gene Stratton-Porter's charming early twentieth century novel, illustrated with colour plates by Gene Stratton-Porter. The first edition of this work, from American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter.Illustrated with a frontispiece and three colour plates by Herman Pfeifer. Collected, complete.Binding variant 'B', with 'Laddie' to the back strip head, rather than the full extended title.Loosely based on the author's own childhood, this is a charming story about the romance between a poor boy and wealthy girl, and an idyllic childhood in America. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Herman Pfeifer. Near Fine .