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

ilo 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.. Castle on spine. 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 $90

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. Green cloth binding with illustrated paste-down and gilt lettering. A good binding with only minor wear. Cover illustration by Charleson with one chip. (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

 

 

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.. Castle on spine. 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 $250

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The Bugle Song by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustration by Donn Crane $48.00

 

 

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Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson: Maginal Wright Enright, illustrator
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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. Slight scratching to cover illustration. 1/4 inch tear at top of copyright page. Otherwise Fine. . Inventory # 7392 Price $60
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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

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