Shute, Henry A. The Real Diary of a Real Boy [SIGNED]

Shute, Henry A. (Augustus). The Real Diary of a Real Boy. Chicago: The Reilley & Lee Co., ca. 1920. [507] Red cloth with light wear & soil, tight binding, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 200 pp., no dj.  Inscribed on the ffep, "The very sincere regards of Henry A. Shute to Stephen A. Condrey, 'Plupy'. Exeter, N. H. Sept. 19. 1928." With a typewritten letter from Mr. Condrey to John S. Mayfield, post date Aug. 29, 1938, with personal news & his plans to send this book to Mayfield. The envelope is pasted to the rear free endpaper, Mayfield's name sticker is on the rear pastedown. A clipping from the mailing envelope is also folded and laid in. If you like the humor of Mark Twain and the antics of Our Gang, this book is for you. The last copyright date in the book is 1906 but the name Reilly & Lee Co. was not used until 1919. Henry Augustus Shute (1856-1943), a Harvard graduate (1879) who was raised in Exeter, New Hampshire. He started writing stories based upon his childhood in Ex