The Bookhouse for Children, 1920. Hardcover. Good. Six volumes, complete: In the Nursery (1920), Up One Pair of Stairs (1920), Through Fairy Hall (1920), The Treasure Chest (1920), From the Tower Window (1921), and The Latch Key (1921). Early printings; not firsts. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, additional decoration tooled in blind, with illustration plates at front panels. Cloth shelf-worn, edgeworn, with scuffing and scratching to front illustration plates, slight fading to spines. Spines square. Bindings sound. Pages toned, with light staining, mostly as thumbprint markings at fore-edges; occasional foxing; light color transfer from illustrations throughout - no tissue guards, as issued. Interiors else clean, with the texts unmarked. A catch-all grab bag of short pieces for children, including fairy tales, excerpts from fiction and poetry, and essays. Contributors include Mother Goose, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson, Hans Christian Anderson, Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, William Blake, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Walter de la Mare, John Milton, Sir Walter Scott, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Allan Poe, George MacDonald, Edmund Spenser, Alfred the Great, Washington Irving, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, and many others. This is a multiple-item set, which, due to its size and weight, may require additional postage to ship. Photographs available upon request.

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On Mar 29 2018, a reader said:

Reading is one of my first memories. I vividly recall lying on the floor of my grandfather's library and pulling

an old black bound book off the shelf. I am not sure which of the MY BOOKHOUSE books it was, but I know

it had a beautifully detailed painting on the front cover, and inside, it smelled of the 1920's and had that

slightly yellow color of well-worn paper. Even touching the very first few pages, I was already taken in by

the magic that awaited me. Stories for children, or forever children, from different cultures, and different eras

were my summer companions each year from the time I was eight. More than playing with the requisite dolls

or even friends, the MY BOOKHOUSE compilations were never far away from me. Admittedly this was a time

long before technology became the way to instantly gratify the desire for entertainment, but I feel so

fortunate to have grown up during those years when a book would accompany me to the doctor's office or

on a road trip, instead of an iPad or smartphone.

And so my passion for reading has never waned. My children who did grow up with the phones and other

devices still were required to 'bring a book' when we left the house each day. I know this early fascination

with reading has been responsible for all of us in my family to be, not only lifelong learners but lovers of

lifelong learning.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2014901
Title: My Book House: Six Volume Set
Author: Miller, Olive Beaupre [editor]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Bookhouse for Children
Date Published: 1920
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...