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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years; Calico Bush [2 volumes]

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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years; Calico Bush [2 volumes]

by Field, Rachel

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, spine of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years is faded, rubbing to edges and corners, bumping and small tear to tail of spine of Cal
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, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, ix, [3], 207 pages, 3 coloured plates plus black and white plates and engravings in text; Calico Bush, xii, 213 pages, 4 full page wood engravings in sepia and black plus other engravings in the text

Synopsis

Hitty Her First Hundred Years is a memoir written in the voice of a doll, Mehitabel, or Hitty for short, constructed in 1822 from the wood of a Mountain Ash tree from Ireland by a peddler stranded during a winter storm at a house in Maine. After giving the doll to the young daughter of the house,  Phoebe, whose father is a captain on a whaling ship, Hitty embarks on many adventures throughout the world, meeting many interesting people along the way. The adventures of Hitty were inspired by a doll purchased by the author, Rachel Fields, which now resides at the Stockbridge Library Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, was awarded the Newbery Medal of Excellence in 1930.  Hitty was rewritten by Susan Jeffers and Rosemary Wells in 1999, updated, simplified, and released as Rachel Field’s Hitty , and with an addition of the doll’s experiences during the American Civil War. 

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Bookseller
Keogh's Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
70623
Title
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years; Calico Bush [2 volumes]
Author
Field, Rachel
Illustrator
Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop and Allen Lewis
Format/Binding
, patterened cloth with paper title labels to front boards Hardback
Book Condition
Used - , spine of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years is faded, rubbing to edges and corners, bumping and small tear to tail of spine of Cal
Edition
Reprint and First edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Published by The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication
, New York
Date Published
, 1929 and 1931
Keywords
Field, Rachel, Hitty: Her First Hundred Years; Calico Bush [2 volumes]
Size
, 22 cm x 18 cm
Note
May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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