Young Folks' Library (Second numbering)

Topic: Reprints of childhood tales

Publish Dates: 1899-1912

Volumes: 73

Formats: 8

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Adventures of a Brownie

Miss Mulock

2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

3

Dog of Flanders

Ouida

4

Aesop's Fables

Anonymous

5

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

6

Jackanapes

Juliana H. Ewing

7

Christie's Old Organ

Mrs. O. F. Walton

8

Child's History of England

Charles Dickens

9

Editha's Burglar

F. H. Burnett

10

Fairy Land of Science

Arabella B. Buckley

11

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

12

Little Lame Prince

Miss Mulock

13

Little Rosebud

Beatrice Harraden

14

Brownies

Juliana H. Ewing

15

Man Without a Country

Edward Everett Hale

16

Robin Hood

Anonymous

17

Miss Toosey and Laddie

Anonymous

18

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

19

Pinocchio's Adventures

Translated from the Italian

20

Greek Heroes

Charles Kingsley

21

Rab and His Friends

John Brown

22

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

23

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

24

Through a Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

25

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

26

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

27

Water Babies

Charles Kingsley

28

Wonder Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne

29

Wee Willie Winkie

Rudyard Kipling

30

Fairy Book

Miss Mulock

31

Wreck of the Chancellor

Jules Verne

32

Tour of the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

33

Talks to Children about Jesus

Mrs. Morton

34

Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

35

Boat Club

Oliver Optic

36

Grandfather's Chair

Nathaniel Hawthorne

37

Dr. Ox's Experiment

Jules Verne

38

Rose and the Ring

William Thackeray

39

Burglar's Daughter

Margaret Penrose

40

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

41

Erie Train Boy

Horatio Alger

42

Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

43

Girl in Ten Thousand

L. T. Meade

44

Stories from Virgil

A. J. Church

45

Story of the Persian War

A. J. Church

46

Wee Macgreegor

J. J. Bell

47

Palmer Cox's Brownie Book

Palmer Cox

48

Boss and Other Dogs

Maria Louise Pool

49

Jessica's First Prayer and Mother

Hesba Stretton

50

Twice Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

6a

Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

12a

Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

14a

La Fontaine's Fables

15a

Midshipman Easy

Captain Marryat

16a

Man Without a Country

Edward Everett Hale

20a

Red Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

30a

Yellow Fair Book

Andrew Lang

7b

All Aboard

Oliver Optic

14b

Boat Club

Oliver Optic

20b

Now or Never

Oliver Optic

23b

Prue and I

George W. Curtis

36b

Soldiers Three

Rudyard Kipling

38b

Ten Nights in a Barroom

T. S. Arthur

6c

Black Rock

Ralph Connor

11c

Gold Bug

Edgar Allan Poe

30c

Paul and Virginia

Bernadin de Saint-Pierre

29d

Poor Richard's Almanac

31d

Sweet Girl Graduate

L. T. Meade

32d

Modern Cinderella

Louisa Mae Alcott

38d

Sketch Book

Washington Irving

45d

Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50d

Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

10e

Starling

Norman McLeod

Format 1 - Cloth. Various colors. Picture of a boy and a girl back to back on the cover. 6.5 x 4.5. 1899-1900

Format 2 - Cloth. Various colors. Pictorial picture on applique with a gold gilt floral decoration surrounding the picture. 6.5 x 4.5 1901

Format 3 - Cloth. Various colors. Gold gilt decoration surrounding a book appropriate pictorial picture on an applique. 6.5 x 4.5. 1902

Format 4 - Cloth. Various colors. Cover divided into four areas. Upper left has embossed trees while lower right has book appropriate multicolored applique picture. 6.5 x 4.5. 1904

Format 5 - Cloth. Various colors. Gold gilt floral decoration surrounding a book appropriate rectangular picture on an applique on the cover. 6.5 x 4.5. 1904

Format 6 - Cloth. Various colors. Gold gilt picture of a village at the top of cover with a pictorial rectangular picture on an applique on the bottom. 6.5 x 4.5. 1906

Format 7 - Cloth. Various colors. Gold gilt title in a rectangle surrounded by a leaf pattern where it says Young Folks Library. Applique with pictorial picture. Various surrounding decorative patterns have been seen. 6.5 x 4.5. 1908

Format 8 - Cloth. Parti-Style. Front cover is an applique in which there is an oval picture in the center. 6.5 x 4.5. 1909

Series Notes:
1. The 1899 book list includes #1-32 and the books above numbered with an "a".
2. 1900-1901 #1-40 as above except #14 is still La Fontaine's Fables
3. 1902-1903 #1-41 as above.
4. 1904. #1-50 Deletions include #31, 32, 37
5. 1906 #1-49 Deletions include 7,8,23,31,32,35,37,43,46.
6. 1908 #1-49 Deletions.- 6,8,10,30-32.35.37.40, 46. New titles are above with the suffix "b".
7. 1909 #1-49 Deletions- 1,8,10,31,32,35,37,40,43,44,46. New titles are above with the suffix "c".
8. 1910 #1-50 Deletions- 1,4,8,10,35,37, 40 43, 44, 46. New titles above with the suffix "d".
9. 1911 #1-50. Deletions: 1,4,6,8, 11, 23, 35,37, 40, 43-44, 46. New titles above with the suffix "e".
10. 1912 #1-50. Deletions: 1,4,6,8,11,16,18,20-23,26,35-40,43-44,46. No new titles this year.

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