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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

by Field, Rachel

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  • Hardcover
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VG/Good+ (light age toning to pages, light scuffing to boards. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has overall shel
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New York: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. VG/Good+ (light age toning to pages, light scuffing to boards. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has overall shelfwear with small tears). Red cloth boards with black lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, 207 pp, illustrated in bw. The adventures of a wooden doll made in New England in the early 19th century and her many owners.

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
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
178468
Title
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Author
Field, Rachel
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - VG/Good+ (light age toning to pages, light scuffing to boards. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has overall shel
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Macmillan
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1952
Keywords
Juvenile Fiction, children's books ; Juvenile Fiction ; ;

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