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Title The Story of Waitstill Baxter
Author Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Book #   000250
Publisher   Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place   New York
Year   1913
Book Condition   Fine
Jacket Condition   No Jacket
Binding   Pictorial Cover

Price:    $85.00

Description First Edition. Very Fine ++ condition for this book Very bright gold lettering on front and spine. Crisp corners, no foxing. Excellent condition. Colour frontispiece and three colour illustrations by H.M. Brett. Wiggin, Ameriican author and educator, organized the first free kindergartens in San Francisco. In cooperation with her sister she established a training school for kindergarten teachers. As part of her teaching career, Wiggin wrote her first book, The Story of Patsy. The most popular among her many works for children remain, The Birds’ Christmas Carol, Timothy’s Que st, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Mother Carey’s Chicken. Colour frontispiece and three colour illustrations by H.M. Brett. Wiggin, Ameriican author and educator, organized the first free kindergartens in San Francisco. In cooperation with h er sister she established a training school for kindergarten teachers. As part of her teaching career, Wiggin wrote her first book, The Story of Patsy. The most popular among her many works for children remain, The Birds’ Christmas Carol, Timothy’s Que st, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Mother Carey’s Chicken