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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years

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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years

by Rachel Field

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Dorothy P. Lathrop . 207p. later printing in patterned cloth boards with illustrated paste down label. Spine showing a bit of fade, background rose to brown, cloth rubbed at head and heel of spine, with corners touched. Owner's name in marker, front pastedown. Newberry Medal award winning novel.

Synopsis

Hitty Her First Hundred Years is a memoir written in the voice of a doll, Mehitabel, or Hitty for short, constructed in 1822 from the wood of a Mountain Ash tree from Ireland by a peddler stranded during a winter storm at a house in Maine. After giving the doll to the young daughter of the house,  Phoebe, whose father is a captain on a whaling ship, Hitty embarks on many adventures throughout the world, meeting many interesting people along the way. The adventures of Hitty were inspired by a doll purchased by the author, Rachel Fields, which now resides at the Stockbridge Library Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, was awarded the Newbery Medal of Excellence in 1930.  Hitty was rewritten by Susan Jeffers and Rosemary Wells in 1999, updated, simplified, and released as Rachel Field’s Hitty , and with an addition of the doll’s experiences during the American Civil War. 

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Bookseller
Little Sages Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1888
Title
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
Author
Rachel Field
Illustrator
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1933

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