AMERICANA AS TAUGHT TO THE TUNE OF A HICKORY STICK by Livengood, W.W., compiled by - 1954

Women's National Book Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Light tanning of the pages. Personal library bookplate on the inside of the front cover. .

New York: Women's National Book Association, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Octavo. Hardcover. Gray cloth covered boards with gilt lettered title on spine and cover. Illustrated dust jacket. 70 pages. Wear on edges and spine. Edge wear and chipping to the dust jacket.

[New York]: Women's National Book Association, 1954. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with many charming engravings, title and text page reproductions. Includes excerpts from popular early American textbooks (most 1784 to 1884) including William Holmes McGuffey Readers, Jedidiah Morse's Geography, Town and Holbrook's Readers, etc. Begins with The New England Primer (1643). From the compiler's preface: "Herein have been garnered sheaves of material from popular elementary schoolbooks of the past... The entire gamut of the lower school curriculum has been traversed - reading, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, and history... the little anthology touches every area of schooling our youthful ancestors were catapulted into." Decorated endpapers. Original beige pictorial cloth, stamped in blue and white. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good+ jacket (light soil). 8vo. 70pp. + 22… Read More

Women's National Book Association, 1954. Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. The plastic protected jacket is marked, tanned and edgeworn, with a few nicks and tiny chipped portions to the edges. Penned dedication on the half title page. Pages are sound and clean; all content is clear. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

no place: Women's National Book Association, 1954. Small 4to; pictorial cloth covered boards with decorative endpapers; hardcover; 70 pages plus 22 pages of advertising; black and white illustrations; else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket.

N.P.: Women's National Book Assoc, 1954. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 70, (22) pages. First edition. Listing of interesting children's books with many plates showing title pages and other illustrations. Presentation from author on title page "For Helen: This with very fondest wishes, W.W. Livengood, April 30, 1954." . Jacket chipped with piece missing at bottom of spine. Bookplate of Helen S. Lowitt on free endpaper.

N.P.: Women's National Book Assoc, 1954. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 70, (22) pages. First edition. Minor chipping to the edges of the dust jacket, else near fine in very good jacket. Listing of interesting children's books with many plates showing title pages and other illustrations.