THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SCHOOL LIFE.

UK,8vo HB,2nd reprint.[Originally and first published 1914,a first reprint followed in May.1915 and reprinted again,this edn,in May, 1917.These sketches originally appeared in 'Blackwoods Magazine' and reproduced here,in book form.] VG++.No owner inscrptn,but inexplicably,ffe pasted/glued to front pastedown. Bright,crisp,clean,and minimally bumped corners,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,printed black ink lettering to front cover,stamped (assumed oxidised) letters to spine/backstrip,and reasonably clean plain white eps.Negligible shelf-wear,creasing or rubbing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears,splits or fraying present.Top edges slightly toned but without foxing/spotting,fore+lower edges deckled (untrimmed) and similarly toned/aged; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,light foxing throughout the volume and some occasional small marks.No intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,could appear unread - apart from my own collation.Fore edges are not uniform - some leaves over-extend with curling and some are too short and therefore cleaner and protected. With the pages being untrimmed,previous owner has hastily (?) opened pp9-12 causing one small semi-circular shaped torn loss to lower fore-edge of pp9/10 and 3 similar shaped tears with small losses and a small,upward oblique closed tear to fore-edges of pp11/12,but in all cases,text unaffected and without any loss to same.Pp199/200 also affected with a small (4/5ths") horizontal tear - text also unaffected.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,2nd reprint,3-226pp [paginated] includes VIII (8) chapters,12 full- page,pastel colour reproduction illustrations by Lewis Baumer - includes frntis and all with facing tissue-guard - all called for and present,plus [unpaginated] half-title,colour frntis+tissue guard, title page,a dedication, separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,individual chapter separator pages,and to the rear,a 16pp publisher's catalogue - the last 4pp unopened.
Major General John Hay Beith,CBE [17 April 1876 - 22 September 1952],was a British schoolmaster and soldier,but is best remembered as a novelist,playwright,essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.After Cambridge,Beith became a schoolmaster. In 1907 he published a novel,'Pip its success and that of several more novels enabled him to give up teaching in 1912 to be a full-time author. During WW1,Beith served in France.His good-humored account of army life,'The First Hundred Thousand',published in 1915, was a best-seller.On the strength of that,he was sent to work in the information section of the British War Mission in Washington, D.C. After the war he made himself a considerable career as a dramatist.During WWII,Beith served as Director of Public Relations at the War Office.
Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer (1870-1963).Worked as Lewis Baumer.Born and brought up in St. John's Wod,London. Encouraged by his parents to take up art,he attended St. John's Wood Art School,the South Kensington Schools and the Royal Academy Schools.He painted flowers and portraits of women and children in watercolour,pastel and oil; worked in b/w and made etchings.
From the 1920s he concentrated on drawing for 'Punch' - a satirical/humour periodical,and other magazines;'The Graphic', 'The Idler','The Pall Mall Magazine','The Sketch' and 'The Strand Magazine' amongst others. R G G Price wrote of his 'Punch' cartoons that 'he was in a way the leader and certainly the most popular of the social commentators,using "social" in the old rather than the new sense'. In his book illustrations,as in his other work,'bright,young things' predominated - charming, effervescent,weightless creatures,depicted with Baumer's characteristically light touch.Elected RI (1921).
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