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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 brown uncoated dust jackets are pre-1915. The later white dust jackets are 1915 or later. 8.25 x 6.25.

Determining the edition:

First edition:
1. Full cover applique (paste-on) on the front cover which matches an internal illustration.
2. There is a green line surrounding the front cover cover applique.
3. The frontispiece is on grey paper.
4. The spine title reads from bottom to top.

Second edition:
1. Cover illustration is directly on the cloth. It is not an applique (paste-on)

Third Edition
1. There is a full cover applique (paste-on) without the green border.
2. Spine reads from top to bottom.
3. At the bottom of the copyright page it states: Printed in the United States of America. This is a post-1922 indicator.

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.

 

DJ Reverse Earliest

#1 Dust Jacket

#1 First Edition

#1 Early Second Edition

 

#1 Second Edition

#1 Third Edition

#2 First Edition

#2 Second Edition

 

#3 Second Edition

#3 Third Edition

#4 Dust Jacket

#4 First Edition

 

#4 Second Edition

#4 Third Edition

#5 Dust Jacket

#5 First Edition

 

#5 Third Edition

 

#1 Early Frontispiece

#1 Later Frontispiece

#3 Frontispiece

#3 Frontispiece-variant

 

1907 - American Stationer

 

 

January, 1908 - NY Times

 

 

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