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Series 199 - Young Folks Puzzle Pictures' Series

 
 
Series Name:
Publish Dates:
Topic:
Young Folks Puzzle Pictures' Series
1906 - 1907
Puzzle books
Series Number:
Volumes:
Formats:
199
5
1

 

Title: Author: Year: Illustrator:
1 Mother Goose's Puzzle Pictures Anonymous 1906  
2 Tale of Peter Rabbit with Puzzle Pictures Potter, Beatrix 1907  
3 Animal Tales with Puzzle Pictures Holmes, Prescott 1907  
4 Night Before Christmas with Puzzle Pictures Wager-Smith, Curtis 1907  
5 Dog Tales, Cat Tales and Other Tales with Puzzle Pictures Holmes, Prescott 1907  

 

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Tan cloth. Front cover's top half has the title in black letters while the bottom half has a pictorial multicolored book appropriate picture which matches one of the internal illustrations which are found on every page. The earlier books' cover has the illustration on the cover cloth whereas the later books have a paste-on picture/applique on the cover. The earlier brown uncoated dust jackets are pre-1915. The later white dust jackets are 1915 or later. 8.25 x 6.25.

Series Notes:
1. Pages have rhymes and pictures. Within each picture is a hidden object which the reader is challenged to find.
2. Books published in or after 1922 have "Printed in the United States of America" at the bottom of the copyright page.
3. The frontispieces of the earliest books are on grey paper.

 

DJ Reverse Earliest

#1 Dust Jacket

#1 Earlier

#1 Later

 

#2 Earlier

#2 Later

#3 Earlier

#3 Later

 

#4 Dust Jacket

#4 Earlier

#4 Later

#5 Dust Jacket

 

#5

#3 Frontispiece

#3 Frontispiece-variant

 

January, 1908 - NY Times

 

 

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