Books Through the 1920s

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* Newbery Honor Book
    (the following year)

The Tailor of Gloucester
by Beatrix Potter

c.1903
copyright renewed 1931

The Adventures 
of Johnny Chuck
by Thornton Burgess
With Illustrations by Harrison Cady

c.1913
Little, Brown, and Company
1926 edition

A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Lewis Stevenson

 1916 printing
 with illustrations by Myrtle Sheldon

M.A.Donohue & Co.
Chicago

The Adventures
 of Old Mr. Toad
By Thornton Burgess
Illustrated by Harrison Cady

c. 1916
Little, Brown, and Company
1944 Grosset and Dunlap Edition

The Adventures
 of Poor Mrs. Quack
By Thornton Burgess
Illustrated by Harrison Cady

c. 1917
Little, Brown, and Company
1945 Grosset and Dunlap Edition

ABC Book
Designed and cut on wood
 by C B Falls

c. 1923
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
paperback, edition uncertain

Favorite Fairy Tales

Illustrated by Gustave Dore
and other artists
c1927 or earlier
no date listed, but inscription
 inside indicates it was given
as a Christmas gift, 1927
M.A Donohue & Company
Chicago    

Clever Bill
by William Nicholson

c.1926
"The distinguished English woodcut artist, painter, and illustrator Sir
William Nicholson (1872-1949)
created both the text and pictures
for only two children's books,
Clever Bill in 1926 and
 The Pirate Twins in 1929."

1977
Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition

* Millions of Cats
by Wanda Gag

c. 1928 by Coward-McCann, Inc.
renewal 1956 by Robert Janssen

Scholastic edition

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