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Series Name:
Publish Dates:
Topic: |
Boys and Girls Classics (old)
1899 - 1906
Children's stories |
Series Number:
Volumes:
Formats: |
58
40
1 |
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Title: |
Author: |
Year: |
Illustrator: |
| 1 |
Adventures of a Brownie |
Mulock, Miss |
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| 2 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Carroll, Lewis |
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| 3 |
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Franklin, Benjamin |
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| 7 |
Black Beauty |
Sewell, Anna |
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| 8 |
Child's Garden of Verses |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
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| 9 |
Christie's Old Organ |
Walton, O.F. |
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| 10 |
Christmas Carol |
Dickens, Charles |
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| 15 |
Dog of Flanders |
Ouida |
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| 21 |
Fairy Land of Science |
Buckley, Arabella B. |
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| 25 |
Greek Heroes |
Kingsley, Charles |
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| 26 |
Gulliver's Travels |
Swift, Jonathan |
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| 30 |
Jessica's First Prayer |
Stretton, Hesba |
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| 31 |
J. Cole |
Gellibrand, Emma |
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| 36 |
Kidnapped |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
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| 39 |
Laddie and Miss Toosey's Mission |
Anonymous |
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| 40 |
Lays of Ancient Rome |
Macaulay, Thomas B. |
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| 41 |
Little Lame Prince |
Mulock, Miss |
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| 46 |
Magic Nuts |
Molesworth, Mrs. |
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| 47 |
Mosses from an Old Manse |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| 51 |
Old Christmas |
Irving, Washington |
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| 55 |
Pilgrim's Progress |
Bunyan, John |
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| 56 |
Plutarch's Lives |
Anonymous |
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| 57 |
Prince of the House of David |
Ingraham, Rev. J. H. |
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| 62 |
Rab and His Friends |
Brown, John |
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| 63 |
Rip Van Winkle |
Irving, Washington |
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| 69 |
Shakespeare's Heroines |
Jameson, Mrs. |
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| 74 |
Tales from Shakespeare |
Lamb, Charles and Mary |
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| 75 |
Tanglewood Tales |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| 76 |
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room |
Arthur, Timothy Shay |
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| 77 |
Things Will Take a Turn |
Harraden, Beatrice |
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| 78 |
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found
There |
Carroll, Lewis |
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| 79 |
Tom Brown's School days |
Hughes, Thomas |
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| 80 |
Treasure Island |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
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| 81 |
Twice Told Tales |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| 82 |
Two Years Before the Mast |
Dana Jr., Richard |
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| 88 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
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| 91 |
Vic, the Autobiography of a Fox-Terrier |
Marsh, Marie More |
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| 94 |
Water-Babies |
Kingsley, Charles |
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| 95 |
Wonder Book |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| 100 |
Zoe |
Anonymous |
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Henry
Altemus Format:
1 Volumes: 1
- 100
Cloth. Various colors. Gold gilt rectangular pattern on the front
cover. Top horizontal rectangle has gold gilt lettered title. Three
vertical rectangles are below the title rectangle. The middle one has a
multicolored illustration of a book appropriate person. At the bottom
is a small horizontal rectangle within which is the author's name. 6.5
x 4.25. Published only in 1899. These books came in a labeled box.
Henry
Altemus Format:
2 Volumes:
1 - 100
Same as #1 except there is a gold gilt decoration within the two
laterally placed vertical rectangles. Format published in 1899. These
books came in a labeled box.
Henry Altemus
Company Format:
3 Volumes: 1
- 100
Same as #1. Published between 1900-1906. These books came in a labeled
box.
Henry Altemus
Company Format:
4 Volumes: 1
- 100
Same as #2. Published between 1900-1902. These books came in a labeled
box.
Series Notes:
1. There is no evidence that Altemus used this numbering sequence for
any other series.
2. The 1899 Henry Altemus published books are very rare.
3. The front cover picture is the same regardless of which format the
book is part of.
4. For exact dating of these books use the information below.
Books with gold gilt decoration within the vertical rectangles (Formats
2 and 4)
a. 1899 - Lists only Henry Altemus not Henry Altemus Company on the
title page
b. 1900 - Lists Abbott's Historical Series
c. 1901 - Lists Sea Kings, No Vic in Young People's Library ad
Does not list Abbott's
Historical Series
d. Late 1901 - Vademecum does not list books #10/122.
YPL lists Vic
e. 1902 - Lists Popular Library
Formats 1 and 3.
a. 1899 - Lists only Henry Altemus not Henry Altemus Company on the
title page
b. 1900 - Lists Abbott's Historical Series
c. 1902 - Lists Popular Library
d. 1903 - Lists In His Name to #40
Lists Vademecum Series from
#1-16 without deletions
e. 1904 - Lists Wee Books for Wee Folks as three 2 book boxes
f. Late 1904 - Lists Wee Books for Wee Folks in a list of 6
Lists In His Name to Book #44
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Box
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#1
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#1
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#2
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#3
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#7
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#7
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#8
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#8
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#8
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#9
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#9
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#10
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#10
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#15
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#15
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#21
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#21
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#25
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#26
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#30
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#30
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#31
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#31
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#36
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#39
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#39
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#40
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#41
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#46
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#46
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#47
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#47
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#51
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#51
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#55
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#56
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#56
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#57
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#57
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#62
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#62
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#63
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#69
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#69
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#74
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#74
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#75
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#75
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#76
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#76
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#77
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#78
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#78
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#79
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#79
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#80
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#81
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#82
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#82
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#88
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#88
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#91
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#91
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#94
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#94
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#95
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#95
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#100
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#100
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