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Milo Winter, Maginal Wright Enright, Donn P. Crane. Bert Elliott, Portia Jacob and Dorothy Hoff Smith., Illustrators
Miller, Olive Beaupre
My Book House Volume 1 In the Nursery
Hardcover. Book Condition: FINE. No Jacket. 1925 Edition.. Black embossed cloth with gold titles and paste-on illustration to cover. 432 pages. We have never before handled a copy with no tears whatsoever. Cover illustration perfect. Owner's names penned and stamped inside front cover. No other marks or writing. Bindings bright and tight. Gold titles bright. Bottom edges rubbed, bottom pf pages dampstained, and slightly wrinkled. Tip and spine wear insignificant. For the very serious collector. Bookseller Inventory # 7678 Price $450

Milo Winter, Maginal Wright Enright, Donn P. Crane. Bert Elliott, Portia Jacob and Dorothy Hoff Smith., Illustrators
Miller, Olive Beaupre
My Book House Volume 1 In the Nursery
Hardcover. Book Condition: FINE. No Jacket. The first edition, 1920. One page with significant repairs. Perhaps 15 others repaired with invisible tape, the repairs in most cases being minor. First gather (title page and contents) is loose. Dampstaining along bottom margins. Some finger smudging, minor. Cover illustration rubbed as seen in image above, Spine aged but solid. Corners bumped. A good copy only but complete and with no damage to the images. Inventory # 7718 Price $60.00

N.C. Wyeth, Milo Winter, Donn Crane,Glen Ketchum, Bert Elliott, M.D. Charleson, Illustrators
My Bookhouse: Volume IV: The Treasure Chest
8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 448 pp., Black simulated leather, blind-stamped gold titles Color pastedown by N.C. Wyeth. Decorative unmarked endpapers. NO DJ as issued. The true 1920 first edition. Volume 4 including writings by Theodore Roosevelt, P.T. Barnum and Charles Dickens as well as a great many others. Most endearing about this volume and others in the series are the illustrations, headpieces, tailpieces and postage stamp size images which appear throughout. Copper plate art colored. Donn Crane, Howard Pyle, Willy Pogany, Petershams Pogany and Walker. Slightest rubbing to spine ends..Cover illustration fine. No internal marks. Predictable browning of page margins. Inventory # 7392 Price $60

Donn P. Crane. Maude Petersham, M.D. Charleson. Illustrators
My Bookhouse, Volume 5: From The Tower Window
Olive Beaupre Miller, editor
Chicago: My Bookhouse: 1921. First Edition. Illustrated endpapers 448 pages. Black cloth binding with illustrated paste-down and gilt lettering. A very bright binding with only minor wear. Cover illustration by Charleson with some minor rubbing. (see image to theleft) . Interior illustrations by Donn Crane and the rest of the Bookhouse crew. Rubbing to spine ends or corners. Owner's name on inside cover, otherwise unmarked and undamaged. Browning of page margins. Very Good copy. Inventory# 7677 Price $45.00

My BOOKHOUSE, The 1920-21 First Edition

Decorative spine

Donn P Crane, Theodore Glass, M.D. Charleson. Illustrators
My BOOKHOUSE, Volume 5: From The Tower Window
Olive Beaupre Miller, editor
Chicago: My Bookhouse: 1921. First Edition. Illustrated endpapers 448 pages. Black cloth binding with illustrated paste-down and gilt lettering. A very bright binding with only minor wear. Cover illustration by Charleson. Interior illustrations by Donn Crane and the rest of the Bookhouse crew. Rubbing to spine ends or corners. A Fine Copy of this edition with no damage, sopiling or markings. Tight and bright. 7712 Inventory#7712 Price $55.00

Milo Winter, Alice Beard, Donn Crane, Bert Elliot et al, Illuatrators
My BOOKHOUSE, Volume 2: Up One Pair of Stairs
448 pages. Front hinge separating at bottom. Cover illustration shows tiny white at edges (see image to the left) but otherwie bright and uscratched. A very good + copy with no markings, tears or soil. First edition, 1920. Inventory # 7788 Price $155.00

Milo Winter, Maginal Wright Enright, Donn P. Crane. Bert Elliott, Portia Jacob and Dorothy Hoff Smith., Illustrators
Miller, Olive Beaupre
My Book House Volume 1 In the Nursery
1st Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children (1920)
Very Good. No Jacket True First Edition. Black embossed cloth with gold titles and paste-on illustration to cover. 432 pages. Spine ends and front edge scuffed. Internally this copy is perfect. We see one like this very rarely. Not a smudge or tear. Not even an owner's name. Inventory # 7592 Price $500.

Various Illustrators from the BOOKHOUSE staff as above in Volume One.
Miller, Olive Beaupre
My Book House Volume 3: Through Fairy Halls
448 pages. Some dampstaining at bottom of text block. Binding tight. Some rubbbing to cover illustration. No tears or markings. Very Good. Inventory # 7789 Price $55.00

My Bookhouse was originally published in 6 thick volumes bound in black cloth with pictorial paste-ons and gilt lettering. (read more)

My BOOKHOUSE: The Original 1920 and 21 editions

In [1927] the six volumes were sold as a set in a wooden house (red roof, two red chimneys, gray walls, and a window at each end). Included were three volumes of the taller My Travelship series, consisting of Little Pictures of Japan (by Katharine Sturges, 1925, dark blue), Tales Told in Holland (by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1926, red) and Nursery Friends from France (by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1927, light blue). 1920, 1921, 1922 6 Volumes in black cloth with gilt lettering and paste-on illustrations In The Nursery, Up One Pair Of Stairs, Through Fairy Halls, The Treasure Chest, From The Tower Window, and The Latch Key. 1925, 1928 6 volumes, as above, but light green and silver, simulated leather 1932, 1934, 1936 6 and 12 volumes, green/silver Adding:, Story Time, Through the Gate, The Magic Garden, Flying Sails, From the Tower Window, 1937: 12 volumes, navy blue and rainbow 1950, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963: 12 volumes, rainbow 1971 reprint by United Educators 12 volumes, white Olive Beaupre Miller on the concept of MY Bookhouse CLICK HERE top of page

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