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Doubleday Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Book. Illus. by Thomas Fogarty. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue paper boards. DJ nearly complete, but chipped and torn along head.. This was my first meeting with Ray Stannard Baker, writing as David Grayson. Baker was a successful news writer who wanted to get away from deadlines and other pressures. His "Adventures" series sold very well, he was involved in starting American Magazine, and he received the Nobel Prize for his biography of President Woodrow Wilson. After skimming the first 50 pp., I had trouble getting my teeth into it due to certain dated expressions and "airy-fairy" situations with which I couldn't identify. Just a litle too airy-fairy for me. 273 pp..

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition copy, in what appears to be a bespoke binding of quarter dark brown calf over burlap, with very neatly done paper labels in tan paper printed in dark brown. There is some light and scattered foxing.~~This copy is signed on the half-title page with a personal inscription by David Grayson: "To | Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Parker | with the regard of | David Grayson | 1925". ~~There are two letters laid in as well. One, a TLS to "friend Parker" thanking him for a recent letter and expressing satisfaction "to have one who knows me as well as you do like what I write so well". It is signed Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson was Mr. Baker's pen-name]. The second letter is a 3 1/2 page ALS to Mrs, Parker from Jessie G. Baker, Ray Baker's wife. In it she writes primarily about her garden in Florida, mentioning that Mr. Baker "has gained right along, but is not quite up to normal strength".… Read More