Books published by publisher H M Caldwell CO.

I can not find the copyright or edition dates on this book. It is the pic with the red cover with gold working with the flowery design around it (rectangle arrangement at top of cover). There are cursive "B"s indented onto cover and spine. Says "Illustrated" on the spine but I only see a few black line drawings. I would say acceptable condition. There is handwriting, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Lucille Picht from Mildred xmas'17) I assume 1917 because of aging. From the outside the book looks tight but inside the cover/pages are separating (a few pages are detached). M. M. Caldwell Co. Publishers New York - Boston.

The Little Minister" by J. M. Barrie was first published in Good Words Magazine, spanning the months January to December 1891. Reckoned to be Barrie's best work, it is one of several novels about the fictional village of Thrums, said to be modeled on Barrie's home town of Kirriemuir. In 1840's Scotland, a young Scottish pastor falls in love with an educated, radiant gypsy girl, who turns out to be a peeress who impersonates a gypsy and smoothes things over between rebellious weavers and the authorities in 1840 Scotland.

First published in 1836, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction. This edition was published by H.M. Caldwell, which was in business from 1896-1914. The covers correspond to the series published by them in 1899.

Wonderful Stories with illustrations in Colour and Black-and-White in this book are Selected and Retold by Gladys Davidson. They are: Sindbad the Sailor Codadad and His Brothers Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Banou Ali Baba and the Forth Thieves The Merchant and the Genie The Enchanted Horse Noureddin and the Fairy Persian Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp The Story of Ganem; or, Love's Slave Camaralzaman and Badoura The Story of the Sisters Abou Hassan; or, The Sleeper Awakened Beder and Giauhara