![]() ![]() The individual books were sold door-to-door by a completely female sales force known as the "Bookhouse Ladies." By 1921 when all six of the original volumes were available, the complete set was offered in a cardboard house. Miller personally edited to meet her own high standards. She began by printing children's literature that Mrs. ![]() The Book House for children was founded in 1919 by Winnetka, Illinois resident Olive Beaupre Miller (1883-1968), an American author, publisher, and editor of children's literature. ![]() Light shelf wear to extremities, occasional browning to margins, few small chips with losses to wooden house near chimney, small cracks to rear roof panel else fine. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, printed endpapers, t.e.g. 1936) and a Bookhouse for Children salesman’s handbook titled Successful Selling (Chicago, 1929). a scarce salesman sample dummy of a My Bookhouse binding for an eighth volume titled Flying Sails (ca. 1927 one of 100 issued) holds two sets of volumes: My Bookhouse, a six-volume set comprising of In The Nursery (1925) Up One Pair of Stairs (1925) Through Fairy Halls (1920) The Treasure Chest (1925) From the Tower Window (1925) and The Latch Key (1925) the second set, My Travelship, is a three volume set comprised of Little Pictures of Japan (1925) Tales Told in Holland (1926) and Nursery Friends from France (1927). Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1920/1929. Complete Set of My Book House and My Travelship in Original Wooden House. ![]()
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