JOHNSON, Owen
The Varmint
First edition. Illustrated by Frederick Gruger. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few short tears. One of the wonderful Lawrenceville Stories, with some emphasis on baseball and football in this one. Johnson wrote several novels and short stories revolving around Dink Stover and his prep school friends at the Lawrenceville School, of which this is one of the best known. Basis for the 1917 film directed by William Desmond Taylor and featuring Jack Pickford and Louise Huff; the stories as a whole were the basis for the 1950 William Wellman-directed film The Happy Years, featuring Dean Stockwell and Darryl Hickman. The only copy we've seen in jacket. McCue p.58.
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