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·         (jeux)BELEZE G.

·         Jeux des adolescents.

·         In 12 percaline rouge éditeur,VIII,365 pages,tranches dorées,140 vignettes dans le texte.Hachette & Cie 1858.deuxième édition,bibliothèque rose illustrée,format 11x17cm,rousseurs plus ou moins fortes habituelles, petites traces d'usure aux coiffes,sans gravité,2 petits raccommodage sion bon exemplaire pour ce titre rare de la collection bibliothèque rose

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BIBLIOTHÈQUE ROSE

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·         NUMBER OF AVAILABLE TITLES ON BACKLIST :

750TITLES

 

·         NEW TITLES

130TITLES A YEAR

It was 1852 when Louis Hachette opened his famous train station bookstalls and launched his first books for children. Since then, Hachette Jeunesse has considerably expanded and diversified its list. Thus, the heroes who were on hand when the celebrated Bibliothèque Rose and Bibliothèque Verte were first introduced (The Famous Five, Fantômette and the rest) have been joined by contemporary characters (Winx, Pokemon, Star Wars) to continue the adventure with this consistently lively 

 

French wiki, machine translated: “The ancestor of the pink Library series is illustrated books for children , pink blanket, Library of Railways launched by Louis Hachette in 1853 ¹ .

First specializes in textbooks, Louis Hachette invests editing leisure from 1850. This is the development of travel which gave him the idea to implement kiosks at railway stations, in which he will sell at From 1853, seven collections for travelers with a single, pink cover, last, with authors such as Countess de Segur or Zénaïde Fleuriot .

The collection is created after a train journey of Louis Hachette accompanied by Napoleon III and Count Eugène de Segur , director of the Railway Company East .The idea germinates when the latter tells him stories that his wife, the Countess de Segur , invented for their children. So she opens the collection (which acquires its pink four years later) with The New Fairy Tales  ; the contract was signed in October 1855.

Since the creation of series, the most famous pink Library books are those written by Enid Blyton  : The Famous Five , Noddy , Jojo Rabbit , and Georges Chaulet (Fantômette ).

Another collection of Hachette, the Green Library , will be launched in 1923 and experience equal success. Intended for a readership of more than twelve years, it is intended as a first step boys, then refocused on a mixed teenage audience after the Second World War.”