Flying Sails, Volume 8 0f 12. Very Good. Authors include Phineas T. Barnum, Howard Pyle, Jonathan Swift, George Eliot, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, and others.
Selections include The Adventures of General Tom Thumb (a true story), A Boy on the High Seas, The Greatest Show on Earth, John Paul Jones, Sea Fever, A Song of Drake's Men, The Tempest, A Whaling Adventure, and Young Midshipman David FarragutInventory # 7782 Price $65.00
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Through Fairy Halls, Volume 6 of 12. Red Binding 1928 printing. Authors include John Galsworthy, Joseph Rodman Drake, Alfred Noyes, Sir Walter Scott, James Whitcomb Riley, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, and others.Selections include The Fairyland of Science (story of the life of Henri Fabre, naturalist), The Fisherman Who Caught the Sun, Hie Away, Little Pictures from Far Japan, The Lost Spear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Musical Visit to Fairyland (A Story of Felix Mendelssohn), and others. (There are about 25 selections.)Very good condition. No damage. Bright illustrations. Inventory # 8525 Price $65.00
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The Treasure Chest, Volume 4 of 6. This is a 1928 reprint ofnthe 1925 green faux leather edition. There is some damege to the N.C Wyeth cover illustration as seen above (upper left) . Otherwise the book is undamaged, but with some rubbing to the top ofnthe spine. Inventory# 7789 Price $85.00
SOLDThe Treasure Chest Volume 9 of 12. Very Good. Authors include Rudyard Kipling, James Daugherty, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Kingsley, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Fred Gipson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, and E. B. White.
Selections include The Adventures of Alexander Selkirk (A True Story of the Real Robinson Crusoe), The Adventures of Perseus, Buffalo Bill, George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the Northwest, How Peary Reached the North Pole, The Labors of Hercules, Old Yeller, Pushing Westward with Lewis and Clark, and The Trumpet of the Swan.Inventory #7784 Price $65.00
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From The Tower Window Vol 10Authors include William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Sir Walter Scott, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others.
This volume includes selections from several legends and epics: The Ramayana of India, The Odyssey of Homer, Beowulf, The Kalevala of Finland, The Song of Roland of France, The Cid of Spain, and others.
Other selections include As You Like it, The Children's Crusade, Joan of Arc, Robert Bruce, The Wanderings of Aeneas, and others. Inventory 7783 Price $65.00
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In Shining Armor Volume 11 of 12. Very Good condition. Authors include Alfred Tennyson, Dante Alighieri, Emma Lazarus, Miguel de Cervantes, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Washington Irving, Woodrow Wilson, and others. Selections include Dante's Voyage to the Inferno, The Man Who Lived in the World of Dreams (A Story of the Life of Dante), Robert E. Lee--A Hero in War and Peace, Surprising Adventures of Don Quixote, Ye Merry Doinges of Robin Hood, and others. Inventory #7783 Price $44.00 |
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Up One Pair of Stairs Volume 3. A beautiful and FINE copy with bright illustrations, clear cover and no damage of any kind. 1928 printing. Red binding. Volume 3 of 12 (Cover Painting by Lilian Westcott Hale) COPY 2: As above in fine condition with the exception of some scratching of the cover illustration and very minor bumping of spine ends. Otherwise a bright and undamaged interior. Inventory # 8532 Price $60.00 |
In 1928 the publishers of My Bookhouse printed so many versions of the set that it would take a doctoral candidate to sort them out. – as you will discover below. Both the 1920-21 black faux leather six volume set and the 1925 green faux leather six volume set were re-printed.
AND it was in this year that the publishers decided to expand the 6 volume set to 12 volumes, presumably to make it more child-friendly. Each volume was broken into two. "In The Nursery," for example, became "In The Nursery"; and "Story Time." The text and illustrations are essentially the same as in the original edition – perhaps even a little brighter. In addition to the green and black faux leather bindings, a red binding was added.
Finally, they introduced a variant image for the end-papers. (See images to the right) Somne 1928 volumes have the first, some the second. Listed below are some of the volumes we have in our inventory. Should you be seeking others, please contact us
