Unlock the rich history and editorial mastery behind one of America's most celebrated children's literary series. This beautifully preserved antique volume serves as the essential companion guide, index, and biographical key to the legendary anthology set.
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Size: 9.5 inches by 7 inches
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Decade: 1920s
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Style: Historic / Literary Guide
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Condition: Good antique condition with minor corner rubbing, a strong structural binding, and clean interior pages showing a little age-appropriate toning
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Extra notes: Volume six of the famous series, featuring 320 pages with a pictorial paste-down cover design
Olive Beaupre Miller revolutionized children's publishing by founding The Bookhouse for Children in 1919, ensuring that stories were graded perfectly to match a child's development. The Latch Key represents the sixth and final foundational volume of the original series, acting as an invaluable resource full of author biographies, historical context, and geographical indexes to help parents navigate the collection. Strikingly bound in dark embossed cloth with a vivid cover paste-down by artist Maud Hunnewell Elliot showing two children unlocking a great wooden door, this copy makes a wonderful finishing piece for a complete set or a standalone display of early 20th-century publishing history.