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My Book House Rainbow 12 volume set. 22nd Printing.
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A lovely copy of the Rainbow Edition, suitable for a gift. Please see our Book House page for shipping, information on our assembled or original sets, and for general information on Publication Data and Contents of the Book House and shipping. On the Book House page, the illustrations and cover pictures of the Rainbow edition come from this set. Note: This Book Has Been Sold.
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My Book House Rainbow 12 volume set. 22nd Printing. (1937)
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Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children Publishers, 22nd printing, (1937) 3rd printing of the original Rainbow Edition; green to blue bindings, stamped plate edge and gilt rules, gilt titles and spine titles; full pictorial endpapers in three levels, full colour illustrations on coated paper in first two volumes, white paper with earlier Bookhouse drawings on Volumes Three - Twelve; pasted-on coloured plates, see Book House Page; large 8vo.
Juvenile hardback set.
CONDITION: Very Good (Vol 1 - 3) to Near Fine (4-12); no owner names or other marks, gilt bright on titles and spine, very white and clean, pages unwrinkled, plates on 3-12 unrubbed, , tight bindings, sharp corners; Vol 4 has 3 tiny indentations on spine (puppy?); one later volume has 2" soil mark on back. Volume One: light soil , bumping and rubs to extrems; very clean, flat pages, plate is quite rubbed and scratched; Volume Two: lightly worn spine ends; both One and Two open freely but are not split, separated or cracked; Volume Three has a bumped bottom corners and little rubs to extrems; Volume Four through Twelve have no furthur flaws.
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19551
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My Book House Rainbow 12 volume set.
I've been looking for these books for a long time. My dad bought the set when we were children. He passed it along to me, and I lost them in storage. Do you have another set?
Thanks Lisa
Rainbow set
Rainbow sets
Hi Lisa, I don't have another Rainbow set, I'm sorry. It is very unusual to find such an early Rainbow set in such beautiful condition, I don't expect to find another! However, there are other later, and less expensive ones out there. Be sure to ask the seller to describe, in detail, the condition of the first two volumes, and that will give you an idea of the whole set.
The Rainbow editions were published in two time periods by the Book House: the first from 1937 to about 1943 the 20th - 25th editions and then again in the late 40's, the 32nd - 35th editions (remember that in Book House terms "edition" means printing)
After the Book House was sold to The United Educators by Mrs. Miller, the new owners issued a Rainbow Edition from 1956 to 1965. There were no printings listed on these volumes, so volumes with various copyright dates within this period are probably from the same set.
There are a couple of sets on abebooks:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=rainbow+book+house+set+...
(There are scattered individual volumes on this page as well....remember that there is no such thing as an 8 volume set! The $150 one looks very nice.)
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