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title: Playmate Polly
 
author: Amy E. Blanchard
 
series: First Edition (1909)
 
condition: Good condition. Delicate spine and binding. Slightly worn covers. Clean and tear-free pages. Names written inside front cover. 
 
publisher: Hurst & Company
 
pages: 218
 
dimensions: 7.5 inches x 5.25 inches x 1 inch
 
description: Rare, first-edition children's book. Beige hardcover with dark blue lettering. Pasted, full-color illustration on front cover. 
 
excerpt: "When Jessie started out in the morning to school, she began at the gate to say to herself, "Bridge, Railroad, Hill," and when she started home again if she came alone, it was "Hill, Railroad, Bridge." Home was at one end of the journey; school at the other; Bridge, Railroad and Hill were the stations between, Jessie told herself. If she were reasonably early, she would stop on the bridge and peep over at the running water. At the railroad she seldom stopped except to say good-morning to Ezra Limpett who sat outside his little box of a house on sunny days, and inside it on rainy ones. He always held out the red flag to show the engineer, when the trains went whizzing by. Once, when the train was behind time, he had allowed Jessie to hold the flattering flag, but that was on her way home, and he had said she must never cross till the train had passed. "
excerpt: "When Jessie started out in the morning to school, she began at the gate to say to herself, "Bridge, Railroad, Hill," and when she started home again if she came alone, it was "Hill, Railroad, Bridge." Home was at one end of the journey; school at the other; Bridge, Railroad and Hill were the stations between, Jessie told herself. If she were reasonably early, she would stop on the bridge and peep over at the running water. At the railroad she seldom stopped except to say good-morning to Ezra Limpett who sat outside his little box of a house on sunny days, and inside it on rainy ones. He always held out the red flag to show the engineer, when the trains went whizzing by. Once, when the train was behind time, he had allowed Jessie to hold the flattering flag, but that was on her way home, and he had said she must never cross till the train had passed. "