My Book House
- SIGNED
- Chicago and Toronto: Book House for Children, 1921
Chicago and Toronto: Book House for Children, 1921. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.
Black cloth stamped in gilt, pictorial cover labels. illustrated endpapers. Second edition. Books are 9.5 inches tall. A complete set.
The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Modest shelf handling wear with bumped corners. A few of the pictorial cover labels have minor rubs. . The My Book House series was first published in 1920 as a six-volume set by The Book House for Children, compiled and edited by Olive Beaupré Miller.
These original six volumes were designed to present stories progressively by reading level, with simple nursery rhymes in the early volumes and more complex literature in the later ones. After 1928, the series expanded into 12 volumes.
Titles:
+++ In the Nursery (for very young children)
+++ Up One Pair of Stairs of My Book House
+++ Through Fairy Halls of My Book House
+++ The Treasure Chest of My Book House
+++ From the Tower Window of My Book House
+++ The Latch Key of My Book House (for older children)
Black cloth stamped in gilt, pictorial cover labels. illustrated endpapers. Second edition. Books are 9.5 inches tall. A complete set.
The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Modest shelf handling wear with bumped corners. A few of the pictorial cover labels have minor rubs. . The My Book House series was first published in 1920 as a six-volume set by The Book House for Children, compiled and edited by Olive Beaupré Miller.
These original six volumes were designed to present stories progressively by reading level, with simple nursery rhymes in the early volumes and more complex literature in the later ones. After 1928, the series expanded into 12 volumes.
Titles:
+++ In the Nursery (for very young children)
+++ Up One Pair of Stairs of My Book House
+++ Through Fairy Halls of My Book House
+++ The Treasure Chest of My Book House
+++ From the Tower Window of My Book House
+++ The Latch Key of My Book House (for older children)