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Location on door: front, panel 1
LAURIE YORK ERSKINE
Born in Scotland, the popular boys' novelist and educator Laurie York Erskine (1894-1976) came to the United Sates as a young child. He served for the British in World War I and for the United States in World War II. He is best known for his adventure novels featuring protagonist Douglas Renfew of the Royal Canadian Mounties, the first of which, Renfew of the Royal Mounted, was published in 1922. Several of Erskine's novels and stories, were made into films and radio programs. From 1936-1940, Erskine narrated the Renfew series on CBS radio. In 1925, he co-founded the Solebury School for boys in New Hope, Pennsylvania, which continues to run today as a coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school. Erskine is one of two people to sign the bookshop door twice; the other is Don Marquis.
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Creator: Erskine, Laurie York, 1894-1976
Title: The Coming of Cosgrove
Description: Dust jacket from first edition
Imprint: New York: Appleton, 1926
Item Date: 1926
Material Type: Monographs
ADA Caption: The Coming of Cosgrove
Curatorial Department: Book Collection
Collection Name: Argosy Starr Western Novels Collection
Stack Location: HRCMIN 5421
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The dust jacket of the first edition of Laurie York Erskine's The Coming of Cosgrove (New York: Appleton, 1926)
The publisher's advertisement for this book called it "a vigorous novel of the range in which a strong-willed son avenges the persecution of his father."