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Books in the American genre:

The Girl on the Boat (1922)

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Wilhermina ‘Billie’ Bennett is on her way to England. On the boat are three suitors - who will be victorious? Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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How the Five Rusty Rats Helped to Find a New Village (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of part three of chapter 1 of Rootabaga Stories. The image above is online at freelibrary.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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How to Break Away and Go to the Rootabaga Country (1922)

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This was the headline illustration for the first periodical publication of the first of the three stories in Chapter 1 of Part One of Rootabaga Stories. It appeared in volume 56, Issue 4 (September 1922) of The Designer and the Woman's Magazine, on p... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Moby Dick or The White Whale (1922)

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Moby Dick or The White Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hat... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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More Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of a story about the Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories printed in The Designer and The Woman's Magazine, probably in January 1923. The image above is available online at freelibrary.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1922)

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In this episode in the Leatherstocking Tales, Natty Bumpo finds himself in love. The action is nonstop as the protagonists travel through hostile territory during the French and Indian War.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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Poems of American Patriotism (1922)

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A selection of poems celebrating America’s martial heritage from the Boston tea party to the end of World War I. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Rootabaga Stories (1922)

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The first collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies. This is the first edition containing eight chapters. Later editions with this title also include the stories from Rootabaga Pigeons. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at archive.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Skippy Bedelle (1922)

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Further adventures of the Lawrenceville School inmates. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): Ernest Fuhr

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The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of this story from Rootabaga Stories. The image is available online at freelibrary.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Three Men and a Maid (1922)

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Wilhemina ‘Billie’ Bennet is on her way to England. Three of her suitors are aboard. Who will win through? Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Two Friends and Their Supporting Investments (1922)

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A promotional give-away for a stock brokerage firm.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Tony Sarg

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The Cruise of the Little Dipper: And Other Fairy Tales (1923)

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A collection of new fairy tales. The author and illustrator were childhood friends. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Susanne K. Langer
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit (1923)

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Howard Pyle’s vast work illustrating the history of the United States of America is here brought together, along with prose accounts of the scenes depicted. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Jibby Jones: A Story of Mississippi River Adventure for Boys (1923)

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Summer time adventures of five boys on the middle Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Arthur G. Dorr

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Reading to Find Out (1923)

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An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Frances Ross
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Rootabaga Pigeons (1923)

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More American fairy tales by the poet of the prairies. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Story of a Bad Boy (1923)

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The story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights include the snowball battle on Slater’s Hill and the celebration of the glorious 4th.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)

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Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the t... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1923)

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This novel of a mutiny aboard a ship bound for the Bermudas is often confused with an account of the actual sinking of a merchant ship off southern Africa in which, while most of the crew and passengers made it safely to land, the vast majority died ... View More

Author(s): W. Clark Russell
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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