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This firm succeeded the
publishing house of Charles C. Thompson Co. in 1917. John
R. Stanton
had formerly been president of the Charles C. Thompson
Company and C.
H. Van Vliet had been president of the Whitman Publishing
Company.
In 1922 C. H. Van Vliet bought out John R. Stanton's
interest in the
company. "Stanton and Van Vliet" continued to publish
books at the 2537
S. State Street address at least until 1925. There are no
listings of
publications by this company thereafter. It appears that
John R.
Stanton returned to the publishing business at at least by
1927 and
perhaps in 1925 since there are John R. Stanton Company
publications
with the State Street address on the title page. The
earliest books
with this imprint that I have seen were dated 1927.
It published five Peck books.
The combination book of Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa Complete
and
Compendium of Fun contained Peck's Bad Boy No. 1, No. 2
and Peck's
Sunshine. It is 8.75 x 6. 25 and was priced at 75 cents.
It has 100
illustrations by True Williams. This book is the same as
the Thompson
and Thomas and the Charles C. Thompson editions.
A second (later) version with 200 illustrations by True
Williams which
cost $1.00 was printed. This book was 470 pages.
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Earlier combination book
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Ad for the later combination book. Note the different
cover.
In 1919, it also published in wraps and hardcover:
Peck's Bad Boy in an Airship
Peck's Bad Boy Abroad
Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
The wraps' books have the same cover illustration as the
earlier
published titles. The hardcover books have a new cover and
were
published with dust jackets.
Here is an ad for these four books from the reverse of a
dust jacket.
This one page advertisement appeared in a July, 1921
Publishers' Weekly
magazine. Stanton and Van Vliet Co. were attempting to
take advantage
of the Peck's Bad Boy movie to help the sales
of its Peck's Bad Boy
books.
Stanton and Van Vliet also published some of the Peck's
Bad Boy Comics.
It is not yet certain which ones it printed. Here is an
example of
Peck's Bad Boy and His Country Cousin Cynthia.
This firm also published the comic: Peck's Boy and His
Chums (See comic
section for a representative picture)
Stanton and Van Vliet Co. published Melville Landon's
Library of Wit
and Humor in 1918.
This book contains several vignettes written by Peck.
For more information see: http://www.georgewpeck.com/library.html
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