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Hitty Her First Hundred Years
by Field, Rachel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Usa: MacMillan Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. Good hardcover with tight binding and clean pages. No dust jacket. Minor wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. End pages are lightly foxed. Cloth on the front board cover has some light staining, possibly from dust, dirt and/or people holding the book over the years. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Spellbinder Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 639
- Title
- Hitty Her First Hundred Years
- Author
- Field, Rachel
- Illustrator
- Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's, Juvenile, Juvenile Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Vintage; Children's;
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Bishop, California
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
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