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In 1904
Altemus
published
the first
six books
of a
series of
fairy tale
books that
would
prove to
be an
extremely
popular
and a very
long
running
series.
“An
entirely
new series
of books
for
children,
especially
adapted
for
Christmas
or
birthday
gifts”
Altemus
Catalogue
1904-1905.
“To those
parents of
little
children
in the
very
morning of
life,
Altemus’
Wee Books
come as a
positive
blessing.
These
stories
deal with
familiar
animals,
fairies
and simple
incidents,
and are
illustrated
in
colors”.
Altemus
catalogue
1925.
These
books had
three
different
formats.
The first
is the
scarcest
while the
third is
quite
common. As
time went
on,
Altemus
discontinued
most of
its other
fairy tale
books to
concentrate
on this
group of
books. New
books were
added
yearly and
spin-off
series
such as
the Peter
Rabbit
Series and
Little
Black
Sambo
books were
published.
Finally
near the
end of the
run all
the books
were
combined
into one
large
umbrella
listing.
(Later,
after
Henry
Altemus
went out
of
business,
Platt and
Munk
reprinted
many of
the
books.)
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