These living histories were written by award-winning authors or by men and women who experienced the events first hand. Great addition to your collection! Landmark Books and World Landmark Books are accurate, in-depth stories for young people in the 9-15 year old range. Pictorial covers show some minor wear to the outside corners and top and bottom of the outside spine. Since this is NOT an ex-library book, it is Hard to Find in this format. Also volumes #s 109-122 had literally no store sales, as they were provided to libraries. Landmark Books #s 104-122 were only printed in the picture cover format. Inside text is Excellent condition and appears unread! No marks or writing. Landmark series Hardback Pictorial Book is in Very Good Plus condition with a tight binding and clean crisp pages. Disaster At Johnstown The Great Flood Landmark #109 HB/PC ISBN: Author: Hildegarde Dolson Publisher: Random Library Release Date: 1965 Seller Category: Landmark Book Series Qty Available: 1 Condition: Collectible: Very Good Sku: 180423B Notes: Hard to find this scarce title in this condition. Lockridge would refer to Hildegarde as either Hildy, or The Lady.Keller Books presents. He had two beloved Siamese cats, and she preferred dogs.ĭespite the obstacles, within a few months of their first meeting Lockridge and Miss Dolson married in May 1965. Dolson loved her Greenwich Village apartment, and Mr. In 1965, when she was 56, she met mystery writer Richard Lockridge, and Lockridge quickly decided he wanted to marry her. Marriage to Richard Lockridgeĭolson once wrote "I'm a self-made spinster who crows too much about it, especially when I get paid by the word." She had at least one article published on the subject of why she should never marry. After her first book was published in 1938, Dolson became a full-time freelance writer. She sold her first manuscript to The New Yorker, and was later published in other major magazines, including Harper's, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, and Reader's Digest. She would later joke: "The day I arrived in New York, in October 1929, the stock market crashed with a bang."Īfter holding down numerous jobs, Dolson found work as an advertising copywriter for Gimbels, Macy's, Franklin-Simon, and Bamberger stores. From 1926 to 1929 she attended Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, but left at the beginning of her senior year to live in New York City. Hildegarde was born and raised in Franklin, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children born to Clifford and Katherine Dolson.
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