Over There with The Doughboys at St. Mihiel

M.A. Donohue & Co [Published Date: 1919]. Hardcover, 214 pp. Reprint edition, with 4 additional short stories (the Duc de L'omelette, The Oblong Box, King Pest and Three Sundays in a Week) inexplicably added at the back with no credit to the author, Edgar Allan Poe. In good condition/ Missing dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with black illustration and red lettering on front and spine. Nicking to cloth at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Spine is cocked and has some slits to endpapers along front and rear hinges and a few thin cracks but binding is still intact. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white frontis-piece illustration. A good reading copy. This is the fictional story of the Doughboys in 337th Machine Gun Battalion, known under the nickname "The Bearcats", and their numerous acts of bravery during World War I before and up to the Battle of St. Mihiel. Some of the Bearcat's more suspenseful adventures include catching a spy with a package containing a secret-coded sweater, being saved by Native American soldiers who show them how to hide in the carcass of a dead horse, and a daring cowboy-style rescue of the Duc de Montaigne's two daughters from their German kidnappers. George Harvey Ralphson was a collective pen name used by multiple ghost writers of juvenile adventure books working for M.A. Donohue & Company in the early 20th century. Several of the books credited to Ralphson may have been written by J. Frank Honeywell. The best-known works credited to Ralphson were the "Boy Scout" series of adventures and the "Over There" Series. …