• Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
  • Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
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Children's Literature Collection, Late 19th to Mid-20th Century

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Item Details

Title and Author/Editor Rhymes for Kindly Children (Fairmont Snyder), In Wide Awake Land, The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature (Edited by P. Edward Ernest), The Three Bears, The Real Mother Goose, Happy Hours: A Casket of Interesting Stories for Boys and Girls, Little Stories of Famous Explorers (Laura A. Large), Butterflies and Buttercups, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting), Story Upon Story and Every One True, Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), Happy Hours, Uncle Titus in the Country (Johanna Spyri), The Infant Reader, The Metropolitan Mother Goose (Elizabeth C. Watson), A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), The Latch Key of My Bookhouse (Edited by Olive Beaupré Miller), Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett), Happy Children, Chatterbox (Edited by J. Erskine Clarke)
Genre Literary and Classic, Short Stories, Young Adult, Allegory and Fable, Children’s, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Illustrator Johnny Gruelle (American, 1880–1938)
Binding One quarter cloth with paper boards, Softcover
Publisher or Printer Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, The John C. Winston Company, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Estes and Lauriat, P. F. Volland, Rand McNally, The Saalfield Publishing Company, The Platt & Munk Co., Donohue, Henneberry & Co., Thomas Nelson and Sons, W. B. Conkey Company, Publishers’ Union, Grosset & Dunlap
Publication Year 1896, 1926, 1938, 1888, 1925, 1886, 1935, 1916, 1948, 1960, 1894, 1897
Period Late 19th Century, Early 20th Century, Mid-20th Century
Place of Publication New York, Akron, OH
Language English
Number of Books 22
Additional Information Includes two copies of The Metropolitan Mother Goose. Includes a book of short stories with a homemade fabric cover, which is missing its title page.

Condition

- conditions vary; generally tight bindings; loose and cracked hinges; bumped spines and corners; cocked spines; edge wear; fraying; wear, scratches, fading, and discoloration to boards and spines; page toning; Happy Hours has illustration pasted over information on the title page; Happy Children has several loose pages and is missing title page.

Dimensions

0.5" W x 13.5" H x 10.75" D

- measures Happy Hours.

Item #

ITMGA14784

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