Ellis, Edward S. The Lost Dragon. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1907. [10115]
Pictorial blue cloth, an automobile with three passengers on front, a lantern on spine, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, binding tight with light soil and edge-wear, darker soil at top edge of backstrip. Frontispiece plus 7 additional b/w illustrations by J. W. Ferguson Kennedy, 325 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
Binding design by Amy M. Sacker, signed with her monogram. The plates are signed JW Ferguson Kennedy, JWF Kennedy, or JWFK.
A sequel to From Low to High Gear with more adventures with Roy Hillman and his friends. This lad of 15 years of age has a new automobile.
An uncommon Ellis novel.
Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916), b. Geneva, Ohio; d. Cliff Island, Maine. A prolific author of fiction for boys and of more serious works of biography and history. He wrote under at least 16 pseudonyms, and had and additional 159 books published in his own name. Besides his historical fiction, he wrote biographies of American frontiersmen, of Cowboys and Rustlers in Wyoming, and accounts of European nations. The Library of Congress has 297 catalogue records of his works.