HERO
Reading edition
By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE COLONEL," "TWO LITTLE KNIGHTS OF KENTUCKY," "BIG BROTHER," "ASA HOLMES," "THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOUSE PARTY," "THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOLIDAYS," ETC.
FRONTISPIECE BY ETHELDRED B. BARRY
L.C. PAGE & COMPANY BOSTON PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1902
BY THE PAGE COMPANY
All rights reserved
Made in U.S.A.
Twenty-seventh Impression, June, 1925
Twenty-eighth Impression, February, 1926
Twenty-ninth Impression, January, 1928
Thirtieth Impression, June, 1929
Thirty-first Impression, October, 1930
Thirty-second Impression, March, 1932
Thirty-third Impression, February, 1934
Thirty-fourth Impression, August, 1935
Thirty-fifth Impression, July, 1937
PRINTED BY THE COLONIAL PRESS INC.,
CLINTON, MASS., U.S.A.
TO
ALL THE FRIENDS OF THE "LITTLE COLONEL"
TO WHOSE LETTERS
THE AUTHOR COULD NOT REPLY,
THIS BOOK IS OFFERED IN ANSWER TO
THEIR MANY QUESTIONS
THE LITTLE COLONEL BOOKS
by
Annie Fellows Johnston
Limited popular editions, each, cloth 12 mo. Illustrated
Three Titles—
The Little Colonel's House Party$1.00
The Little Colonel's Holidays$1.00
The Little Colonel's Hero$1.00
Regular Trade Edition
The Little Colonel Series
(Trade Mark, Reg. U.S. Pat. Of.)
Each one vol., large 12 mo, bound in rose silk cloth; illust.
The Little Colonel Stories (Containing the three stories, "The Little Colonel," "The Giant Scissors," and "Two Little Knights of Kentucky.") $2.00
The Little Colonel Stories—Second Series (Containing the three stories, "The Three Tremonts," "The Little Colonel in Switzerland,"and "Ole Mammy's Torment.") $2.00
The Little Colonel's House Party $2.00
The Little Colonel's Holidays 2.00
The Little Colonel's Hero 2.00
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2.00
The Little Colonel in Arizona 2.00
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 2.00
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 2.00
The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding 2.00
The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware 2.00
Mary Ware in Texas 2.00
Mary Ware's Promised Land 2.00
The above 13 vols., boxed, as a set 26.00
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