HITTY: Her First Hundred Years by Field, Rachel; Lathrop, Dorothy - 1929

New York: Macmillan, 1929. Very good in very good plus jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this Newbery Award winner, in the original dust jacket. This is the now classic tale of Phoebe Preble's doll (based upon an actual doll). First editions of this title are quite scarce, rarely found with such a nice dust jacket and inscribed. 8.25'' x 6.75''. Original patterned cloth with printed paper label on front board. Original unclipped ($2.50; marked out in pencil) dust jacket. Published October 1929. Illustrated by Lathrop with 3 color plates and black-and-white in-text illustrations. xii, 207, [1] pages. Inscribed, "For R.S.L. with special thanks for a Grand June Day - and with Rhode Island in common - Rachel Field 1930." Below this Field has drawn an island with trees, water, etc., adding "Just an island for a present!" Book with sunned spine and faint wear to extremities. Jacket with shallow chipping primarily to spine ends and front corners, cloth spine also sunned.