Vintage Rainbow Children's Classic Book Junior Deluxe Editions Bright Library Set - 82 Book Collection

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Huge collection of 82 Children's books from the Junior Deluxe Editions Library or Doubleday Classics printings. These vintage Mid-century books … Read more Huge collection of 82 Children's books from the Junior Deluxe Editions Library or Doubleday Classics printings. These vintage Mid-century books feature peppy colored binds and on the top of the majority of the books. The Childs book sets were made available via a monthly book club. Do you have some nursery or children's’ bookshelves to fill?

Featuring candy colored binds on the top of each book - the MCM grouping of books is beautiful in a set, from both the rainbow and vanilla directions.

In their era, these were a subscription type book set, with flyers on options and monthly releases; after an initial order of six books a year. They are great lookers for adults or kids. The collection was not purchased by one family but is a gathered set and books are of different ages.

This grouping of 82 of the great books includes the following listed titles. Most of these editions were published in the 1950s, but there are different versions of each book and some are 1940s and 1960s as well:
A Wrinkle In Time
Abe Lincoln Grows Up
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aesop's Fables
Alice in Wonderland
All the Mowgli Stories
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Animal Stories: Tales of the Old Plantation
Around the World in Eighty Days
At the Back of the North Wind (not pictured but included)
Bambi
Bible Stories for Young Readers
Big Red
The Big Wave and Other Stories
The Black Arrow: A Tale of The Two Roses
Black Beauty
The Black Stallion
The Blue Fairy Book: Selected Tales from the Collection
Captains Courageous
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlotte's Web
Christmas Stories
Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout
Davy Crockett
East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon: Norwegian Folk Tales
Eight Cousins
The Family Treasury of Children's Stories Book One
The Family Treasury of Children's Stories Book Two
The Family Treasury of Children's Stories Book Three
Five Little Peppers
Freckles
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Gulliver's Travels
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Harriet the Spy (MODERN BIND)
The Heart of a Dog
Heidi
The Heroic Age of American Invention: 32 Men Who Made the Modern American Era (MODERN Bind)
Jack and Jill
Jo's Boys
Kidnapped
Kim
King Arthur and His Knights
Lassie Come Home
The Little Duke: Richard the Fearless
The Little Lame Prince and the Adventures of a Brownie
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Men
Little Women
Marco Polo
Misty of Chincoteague
My Friend Flicka
Myths Every Child Should Know
National Velvet
Oliver Twist
Penrod and Sam
Peter Pan
The Peterkin Papers
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Prince and the Pauper
Profiles in Courage
Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Stories From Dickens
Stories From the Arabian Nights
The Story of a Bad Boy
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Swiss Family Robinson
Tales from Shakespeare
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks With a Circus
Treasure Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Two Years Before the Mast
Under the Lilacs
The Water-Babies
The Wind In the Willows
The Wizard of Oz

The full set of all published-ever would include an estimated 8 other books, which are more rare editions. Let me know if you have any questions.

SIZE: Each Book is 8.5" x 5.5" and of various bind size. Will spread on a shelf for 75"+ as a set. Overall set weight is approximately 80lbs. Set may arrive in more than one box, sent simultaneously.

MAKER:Junior Deluxe Editions Library or Doubleday. Garden City NY. Printed primarily in 1950's and 1960's See less