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The Story of a Bad Boy (1923)

The story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights include the snowball battle on Slater’s Hill and the celebration of the glorious 4th.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

The Three of Salu: Around the Year in Northern Italy (1923)

This volume in the Children of the World series focuses on three children in Northern Italy.

Author(s): Carol Della Chiesa
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)

Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the t... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Wind in the Willows (1923)

Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, include the notorious Toad. This is the second fully illustrated edition. The end papers used were f... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Nancy Barnhart
Paul Bransom

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1923)

This novel of a mutiny aboard a ship bound for the Bermudas is often confused with an account of the actual sinking of a merchant ship off southern Africa in which, while most of the crew and passengers made it safely to land, the vast majority died ... View More

Author(s): W. Clark Russell
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

At the Back of the North Wind (1924)

The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Bill the Conqueror (1924)

In what is surely one of the Master’s most complex plots we meet Percy Pilbeam and George Pyke who will reappear in later Wodehouse adventures. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Bill the Conqueror (1924)

In what is surely one of the Master’s most complex plots we meet Percy Pilbeam and George Pyke who will reappear in later Wodehouse adventures. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Down the Big River (1924)

Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Stephen W. Meader

Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)

Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

Jibby Jones and the Alligator: The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississippi Valley (1924)

Further adventures of Jibby Jones and his friends on the Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Arthur G. Dorr

Jim Davis (1924)

Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)

Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Leave it to Psmith (1924)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Leave it to Psmith (1924)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

Legends of Charlemagne (1924)

A collection of romances from medieval and renaissance Europe.

Author(s): Thomas Bulfinch
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Lilith (1924)

A story about a journey to the world of the dead.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Midlander (1924)

The conclusion of a trilogy about the industrialization of a Midwestern city. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Thelma C. Grosvenor

Mike: A Public School Story (1924)

Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): J. H. Hartley

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