Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
by Field, Rachel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- Seller
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Dallas, Texas, United States
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About This Item
22nd printing from 1945. Very Good- / very good-. Newbery Award winner from 1930. Hitty is a real doll who had lots of adventures. Book is separated at the frond end page. There is wear at the leading edges of the cover, front and back, possibly from old water damage. The corners are square and the pages are clean and unmarked. the dust jacket is price clipped and there is shelf and edge wear. Jacket is protected in mylar.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- mark mcdonald (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- art 1192
- Title
- Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
- Author
- Field, Rachel
- Illustrator
- Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Format/Binding
- Beige cloth, black titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 22nd printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York, N Y
- Date Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 207
- Size
- 6"x0.75"x8.5"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's lit;
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