Four Boys in the Yosemite
Boston: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1911.
First Edition. 7.5" x 5", 405 pp + publisher's catalogue, illustrated with 8 full-page b/w plates, in original red pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, short gift inscription on front free endpaper, chip missing from rear pastedown; very good.
A volume from Tomlinson's "Our Own Land" boys' adventure series, which was inspired by the See America First movement. He writes in the preface: "A man has recently returned from a trip around the world said that, in all his journeyings, he found nothing to compare with the sublimity, impressiveness, and beauty of the Yosemite Valley" and notes that while this is a fictional tale, "it requires slight knowledge of live American boys to understand that, when they visit such places as the Yosemite Valley, they will discover many things not described in the guidebooks and will have many experiences unlike those of their elders...The foremost purpose of the writer has been not only to interest his young readers in the doings of four boys, but also to inspire within them a desire and a purpose to see with their own eyes some of the marvelous possessions of America."
Item #24200
Price: $65.00