Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Garden City, Long Island: Garden City, March 1936 [Harper's Code "CL"] . Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full ivory-embossed blue pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with colour plates by N. C. Wyeth and Peter Hurd. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.Dodge was associated with St. Nicholas Magazine for more than thirty years, and it became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies. She had the faculty of suggesting, creating, obtaining the contributions she wanted from just the people she wanted to write. She was able to persuade many of the great writers of the world to contribute to her children's magazine – Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tennyson, Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and scores of others. One day, Kipling told her a story of the Indian jungle; Dodge asked him to write it down for St. Nicholas. He never had written for children, but he would try. The result was The Jungle Book.