Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1916 HC no DJ) and 12 similar items

Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1916 copyrighted Hardcover no Dust Jacket) 5 short stories about Tish. Collection of fivel Tish stories: Mind Over Motor, Like a Wolf in the Fold, The Simple Lifers, Tish's Spy, and My Country Tish of Thee--.' These stories first appeared in Curtis Publishing magazines. No illustrations. iv + 372pp. Likely published to promote the movie "Tish" before its' release in 1942. Three elderly spinsters play mother to an orphaned baby in this warm-hearted comedy based on the famous ?Tish? stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart. This book does not have illustrations from the movie. Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876?1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. She also worked to tell the stories and experiences of front-line soldiers during World War I, one of the first women to travel to the Belgian front lines. Hardcover has turquoise cloth boards with navy lettering on spine and front, but no DJ. Top page-edge printed blue. Interior is tight, clean, and, expect for prior owner's name on front paste-down, unmarked. This penciled signature is the only "flaw" from rating the condition as Fine (As New). Copyrights 1912, 1913, 1915 1916. Printed in U.S.A. No edition/print-run info found. This edition published by arraignment with Farrar Rinehart, Inc. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.