Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
by Field, Rachel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
The Macmillan Company, 1929. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. 1929 The Macmillan Company. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper, dated 1930, name and date only. First reprint. "Published October, 1929. Reprinted December, 1929." Hardcover has pink, brown, and white calico-patterned cloth-covered boards with a small illustrated black & white paper cover label. Color frontispiece and two color plates; black & white illustrations. All illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding getting loose in a few places in the text, with webbing peeking at signature divisions. Binding partially cracked at one point in the text block, and a page at that point has been repaired with binding tape, possibly to reattach it. Covers are heavily worn at edges and are rubbed overall. Spine is faded. No lettering or label on spine. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Paper label on cover is lightly soiled and has a small mark. Gift inscription on front free endpaper "Jean from Mother March 20, 1930." Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 207 pages. No dust jacket. This book was a Newbery Medal recipient for 1930. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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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- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7568
- Title
- Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
- Author
- Field, Rachel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Children's Literature,Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Children's Literature;
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