Favorite Stories of Famous Children

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Good. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [ex-library book with general overall wear and various attendant details (call number label on spine, remnants of small rectangular labels on both front and rear covers, library property stamp on front pastedown, date-due slip and discard stamp on ffep); text from jacket flap glued to rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs, line drawings) Condensed versions of various classics, selected by various "famous children" (which for the most part actually means "children of famous people"). There are a number of movie-kids involved, e.g. the children of John Barrymore (Dolores and John Jr.), Harold Lloyd (Gloria, Peggy and Harold Jr.), Barbara Stanwyck (Dion), etc., and of course child stars, genuinely famous on their own: Freddie Bartholomew, Shirley Temple, Jane Withers. Plenty of other recognizable names pop out at you from the table of contents, such as Kitty-Clemens Gotwals (a cousin of Mark Twain), Ulysses S. Grant V (you figure that one out), Josepha Heifetz (daughter of Jascha), Jarvis Rockwell (Norman's son), Irving Thalberg Jr., Paul Whiteman Jr., Lawrence Tibbett Jr. -- you get it, Junior. .