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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (Newbery Medal)
by Field, Rachel; Illustrated By Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1929 Patterned cloth boards with pictorial paper title label on front cover, spine sunned, fraying at spine ends, top corner gently bumped, bookstore sticker to rear endpaper. The classic story of a doll and her numerous owners, beautifully pictured by Lathrop with full page & partial page b&w plates as well as 3 color plates. Peterson & Solt say: "Miss Field's careful assimilation of history, her characterization of Hitty and her many owners, and her attention to style combine to make this a notable book. Dorothy Lathrop's meticulous illustrations, showing Hitty in many costumes and circumstances, but always with the same pleasant expression, are in complete harmony with the text." (N25). Awarded the Newbery Medal for 1930.. First Edition First Printing. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dorothy P. Lathrop. 8vo.
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
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009043
- Title
- Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (Newbery Medal)
- Author
- Field, Rachel; Illustrated By Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Illustrator
- Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dolls, Newbery medal, Newbery Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- Newbery Medal & Honor Books; Children's Award Winners;
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About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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