Story-Life Series

Series Name:
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Topic:

Story-Life Series
1908-1914
 

Series Number:
Volumes:
Formats:

7
4
5

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Story-Life of Lincoln

Whipple, Wayne

1908

2

Story-Life of Washington

Whipple, Wayne

1911

3

Story-Life of the Son of Man

Whipple, Wayne

1913

4

Story-Life of Napoleon

Whipple, Wayne

1914

John C. Winston Company      Format: 1      Volumes: 1 - 2
Cloth. Dark blue. Both books have gold gilt titles and author on the cover but the Lincoln book has a gold gilt portrait in a red and white emblem on the cover. Dust jacket has a large portrait of the named character with a description of the book, author and title written below it. 8.5 x 6.

John C. Winston Company      Format: 2      Volumes: 2
Dark blue. Blindstamped with embossed decoration on the center of the cover Gold gilt title, author and publisher on the spine. This format is in 2 volumes. Boxed. 8.25 x 5.5.

Hampden Publishing Company, Springfield, Massachusetts.       Format: 3      Volumes: 2
Dark blue. Blindstamped with embossed decoration on the center of the cover Gold gilt title, author and publisher on the spine. This format is in 2 volumes. 8.25 x 5.5 (Most often seen with Winston on the spine and Hampden Publishing on the title page)

Fleming H. Revell Company      Format: 4      Volumes: 3
Green cloth. Title, decoration and author's name in white/dark green. 8.75 x 6.

The Century Company      Format: 5      Volumes: 4
Green cloth. Blindstamped with author and title in gold gilt. 9 x 6.

Series Notes:
1. Format one and two are identical except that the title page shows Hampden Publishing Company on one and John C. Winston Publishing Company on the other.
2. The earlier Format 1 books have a glossy title page.
3. Book #1 may have been published by the Premiere Publishing Company. Details are unknown.

A Saleman's Sample book for the two volume Format 2 is shown below.

Format 1 #1 Dust Jacket

Format 1 #1

Format 1 #2 Dust Jacket

Format 1 #2

Format 2, Format 3

Format 4 #4

Format 4 Title Page

Format 5 #3

Format 5 Title Page

Here are some pages from the salesman Sample book advertising the Story-Life of Washington.

Throughout this abbreviated book there are pictures and excerpts from the advertised book.
The inside cover shows representative spines that would be on the purchased book.

This is an ad for the book.

Here is the back page which reveals the order sheet.