Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

by Field, Rachel

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. 

First Edition Identification

Hitty was first published by MacMIllan in 1929. First editions and later early printings are in red decorative cloth. Illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop with 3 color plates, but many full page and in-text black and white illustrations.

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New York: Macmillan, 1929 Patterned cloth boards with pictorial paper title label on front cover, spine sunned, fraying at spine ends, top corner gently bumped, bookstore sticker to rear endpaper. The classic story of a doll and her numerous owners, beautifully pictured by Lathrop with full page & partial page b&w plates as well as 3 color plates. … Read more about this item
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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929. Original patterned cloth with printed paper label on front board, (8.75 x 7.25 inches). True First Edition / First Printing with "Published October, 1929" appearing on copyright page. xii, 207, [1] pages; Illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop with 3 color plates, including frontis and b&w in-text illustrations. SIGNED by Rachel Field on… Read more about this item
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Hardcover. Illustrated by Lathrop, Dorothy P.. 2nd printing, published in December 1929. 207pp. Cloth. B&W illustration affixed to front panel. Signed and inscribed by Dorothy P. Lathrop on the front free endpaper: "To Maria B. Metz / with all good wishes, / Dorothy P. Lathrop / Christmas 1929." Laid in is a slip… Read more about this item
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NY: Macmillan. 1929. The Newbery Award winning story of the first hundred years in the life of a wooden doll. Signed by the author. From the library of Doris Dana, with her ownership signature on the front pastedown. Dana was the translator, and partner, of Chilean Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral, as well as being friends with such figures as… Read more about this item
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New York: Macmillan, 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lathrop, Dorothy. 4th ptg. (May, 1930), square 8vo, red calico cloth with illustrated paste label to front cover, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. Inscribed by Field on the front free endpaper "Wayland Morrison, hoping he will like the whaling part best. Rachel Field, 1930." With Morrison's woodcut illustrated bookplate of… Read more about this item
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New York: MacMillan, 1931. tenth printing. Hardcover. Very good. 7 x 9 in. Calico cloth boards with paper label on front. Signed by Field in a very nice inscription on the ffep - "For Margaret Louise Lewis with Hitty's best wishes and mine, Rachel Field, 1931." Condition is VERY GOOD ; boards are very slightly bowed, covers clean,… Read more about this item
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