Family Flight Series
by Rev. Edward Everett Hale and Miss Susan Hale
| 1. A Family Flight Through France, Germany, Norway, and
Switzerland |
(Copyright 1881) |
| 2. A Family Flight Over Egypt and Syria |
(Copyright 1882) |
| 3. A Family Flight Through Spain- written by Susan Hale
alone |
(Copyright 1883) |
| 4. A Family Flight Around Home |
(Copyright 1884- an 1885 copyright has also been seen) |
| 5. A Family Flight Through Mexico |
(Copyright 1886) |
The books were initially published by D. Lothrop and Company. Later
editions were published by D. Lothrop Co., Lothrop Publishing Company
and finally Lothrop Lee and Shepard.
The earliest editions published by D. Lothrop and Company (until
1887) were oversized books which came in three formats. An illuminated
board cover book was described as having "double lithograph covers"
and was priced at $2.00. There was also an elegant cloth binding with
colors and gilt pictures (different for each book). This book
cost $2.50.
Here is an early ad for the first book in the series. Note that three
formats are listed. The third format is a deluxe book priced at $3.00.
The latter book is cloth with tinted edges.
The clothbound formats of D. Lothrop and Company (until 1887), D.
Lothop Company (1887-1895) and the early books of the Lothrop
Publishing Company (1896-1897) were the same. D. Lothrop Company books
were priced at $2.25 and the Lothrop Publishing Company cloth books
were $1.50.
Different cover colors of this format have been seen.
The two books just below have been seen with different color cloth
covers.
Thus far two different lithographed board cover formats have been
seen. A Family Flight over Egypt and Syria and a Family Flight through
France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland are shown below with a
pictorial book appropriate board covers. These books are presumed to
have been published earlier than the other board cover format because
one of these books (Egypt and Syria) notes the 32 Franklin Street
address on the title page. The other illuminated board cover books
(below) have the "Franklin and Hawley" address on the title page which
is a later address notation. It is unknown whether all five titles
were published with book specific pictorial illustrated board covers.
This is clearly the rarest format of this series.
The later illuminated board cover format published by D. Lothrop and
Company appears to be common to all five titles. It is pictured below.
