Nan Sherwood’s Winter Holidays by Annie Roe Carr, c. 1914–1920 Antique Hardcover
Viridian Eclection
The Book
An early twentieth century juvenile novel, Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays, or Rescuing the Runaways, by Annie Roe Carr.
It is bound in muted blue cloth over board with a simple black stamped serif title and a ruled border, the restrained design convention of pre war American children's publishing. The cloth has faded naturally to a soft slate tone and carries the honest wear of more than a century. No dust jacket is present.
Inside, early twentieth century serif type with a formal title page layout. The paper stock is lightly toned with age.
History & Provenance
The volume was issued by The World Syndicate Publishing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio and New York, New York, a house that specialized in accessible series fiction for middle class households and produced durable cloth bound editions intended for repeated reading.
The Nan Sherwood series debuted in the 1910s, during the golden era of American girls' series fiction, alongside titles such as The Bobbsey Twins and the predecessors of Nancy Drew. Published when juvenile fiction aimed to combine moral instruction with adventure narrative, these books were widely read by young American readers in the years before the First World War and between the wars.
The series idiom is plain in the storytelling, a moral adventure centered on independence, friendship and youthful resilience.
The dating of this copy rests on the binding style, the publisher's imprint and the series' own chronology rather than a printed date, which places it at approximately 1914 to 1920. On that basis the date should be read as approximate.
Product Details
| Title | Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays |
| Subtitle | Rescuing the Runaways |
| Author | Annie Roe Carr |
| Era | c. 1914 to 1920 |
| Publisher | World Syndicate Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio and New York, New York |
| Origin | United States |
| Materials | Blue cloth over board hardcover, faded to a soft slate tone |
| Marks | Black stamped serif title and ruled border to the cloth |
| Condition | Fair to good antique condition. Cloth shows fading, edge fraying and corner softening consistent with age. Interior pages evenly toned. Binding intact though visibly worn at the spine ends. Structurally stable and readable. No dust jacket present |
| Dimensions | To be confirmed |
Why It Belongs in Your Home
This is literary nostalgia in physical form, a survival of the domestic reading culture of the early twentieth century rather than a reproduction of it.
It suits a traditional library shelf, a children's literature collection, a layered stack of antique books, a cottage or farmhouse interior, or the shelves of a collector of early American series fiction.
The softened blue cloth and early 1900s typography bring quiet authenticity to a shelf. Not loud, not graphic, simply historically grounded.
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