"In Shining Armor of My Book House" edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, published by the Book House for Children, Lake Bluff, ILL. 1958' Edition. Volume 11 in the series. Illustrators for the series included Maude and Miska Petersham, Donn Philip Crane, Hilda Hanway, Milo Winter, Peter Newell, Mariel Wilhoite; M.D. Charleson; Keith Ward +++.

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth [faux leather-like] with a paste-down paper illustration on the front board, gold lettering on spine and front board [a little backboard wear]; 7 1/4" x 9 1/2"; color illustrated endpapers, 216 pages, many illustrations, very good/ fine condition.

Volume 11, "In Shining Armor," continues the themes of Volume 10 with bits from German and Yugoslavian epics, along with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, a story of Robert E. Lee, and a tale of Old New York by Washington Irving titled "Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams."

The contents of this volume include:

The Bugle Song by Alfred Tennyson;
Una and the Red Cross Knight, retold from Book I of the Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser;
Mar'ko, the Champion of Serbian Liberty: A Tale of the 14th Century from Ballads of the Yugoslavs;
Ye Merry Doinges of Robin Hood;
Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare;
The Tale of the Rhine-Gold: A Germanic Epic retold from the operas of Richard Wagner;
The Surprising Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott;
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams: A Tale of Old New York by Washington Irving;
The Man Who Lived in the World of Dreams;
Dante's Voyage to the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise retold from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri;
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus;
The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill; and
Your America: An Address to New-Made Citizens by Woodrow Wilson

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