Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Signed First Edition.
by Wells, Rosemary
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689817169
- ISBN 13
- 9780689817168
- Seller
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Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Hitty Her First Hundred Years is a memoir written in the voice of a doll, Mehitabel, 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 was awarded the Newbery Medal for 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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- Bookseller
- The Book Moose (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017708
- Title
- Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Signed First Edition.
- Author
- Wells, Rosemary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0689817169
- ISBN 13
- 9780689817168
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Illustrated;
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