Published by George W. Jacobs & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, 1909
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very good +. Elenore Plaisted ABBOTT, Helen Alden KNIPE (illustrator). First Edition. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Elenore Plaisted ABBOTT and Helen Alden KNIPE, illustrators. First edition. 8vo; 187pp; navy cloth over board, color pictorial onlay on front board featuring a woman reading a book to 3 children; color pictorial endpapers in orange; ownership and holly sticker to ffep; crack in ep at the hinge but holding tight; color fp; 22 color plates; scuffing to boards; very good plus. The adventures of the 7-year-old Brownlee triplets, Adoniram, Abigail, and Bartholomew nicknamed Great-A, Little-a and Bounding-B. The second book by Olmsted about the triplets, the first titled The Land of Never Was, was published in 1908.