Seaman Si: The Adventures of a Blue Jacket on the High Seas of Fun and Trouble / A Book of Cartoons About the Funniest Gob in the Navy 
by: Pearce, Perce

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1st, 1918, Illustrated boards, oblong 8 X 4 inches. 96 pages of b&w cartoons. The travails of Silas N. Dobbin Of Pickle Center, Iowa during his arrival and training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War I. The book is a compilation of cartoons that ran in the camp newspaper, and was drawn by 18-year-old Perce Pearce, who would go on to be a writer, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios. Pearce was the model for Doc in the cartoon feature Snow White, which he co-directed. Pearce's credits also included the Disney pictures Bambi, Song of the South, Treasure Island, Rob Roy and The Story of Robin Hood. Light stains to covers otherwise clean and tight.