Books published by publisher J.C. Winston Co

This is a first edition of the first book in the Mary Francis series. Fryer, a former domestic arts teacher, began her classic series of six "hands-on" homemaking books (cooking, sewing, housekeeping, gardening, first aid, and knitting/crocheting) for girls in 1912. In this volume, she interspersed 40 recipes within a fantasy tale about anthropomorphic kitchenware.

Written in 1951 by Arna Bontemps, major literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance and close friend of Langston Hughes, Chariot in the Sky tells the story of the Jubilee Singers through the life of a young slave boy, Caleb, who becomes one of their earliest members. Caleb is a teenage slave sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to apprentice a tailor. Through careful listening and observation, Caleb diligently teaches himself to read and write. He also discovers his musical talents and develops into an accomplished singer. When the Civil War begins, Caleb is sold to a shopkeeper who takes him to Chattanooga, where he becomes smitten with a free black girl and follows her to Fisk University, a new institution for former slaves in Nashville. Here Caleb grows into his new identity as a free man and receives the esteem and respect that he is due. And he becomes a member of the Jubilee Singers, who become musical ambassadors to the world, promoting education for free blacks and raising money for the struggling new Fisk University. Singing mostly spirituals, the Jubilee Singers become so popular with white audiences that they are invited to tour Europe and Great Britain where they perform for Queen Victoria--an honor Caleb could never have imagined as a slave in South Carolina. Chariot in the Sky is the exhilarating story of one boy's transformation from slave to free man. In the foreword, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis reflects on his experience as a student at Fisk University and the legacy of the original Jubilee Singers. Andrew Ward, author of Dark Midnight When I Rise, a history of the Jubilee Singers, provides a fascinating description of the Jubilee Singers' rise to stardom. His essay is illustrated with photographs, concert posters, and programs of the Jubilee Singers from the archives of Fisk University. spirituals,

First Edition, 1959, first printing, an EX-LIBRARY cloth-bound hardcover, without a dust jacket, from The John C. Winston Co., by Donald Wollheim. The book is in very good condition with the usual ex-library attributes: empty card pouch on the inside cover, stamped "grades 7-8" in the upper left corner of the inside front cove, slightly soiled/foxed first and last pages and inside boards, secure library binding, library name stamp on the title page, red "1" at the bottom of the copyright page, slight wear to the cover. Excellent reading copy of this young adult novel in the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.

"Treasure Island' is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It was originally serialized in the children's magazine 'Young Folks' between 1881 through 1882 under the title 'Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola,' credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell and Co. 'Treasure Island' is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is also noted as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality as seen in Long John Silver's unusual for children's literature. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders." Colored plates and illustrated front and rear endpapers. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. A 1937 Reprint of the 1911 Charles Scribner's Sons edition.