For some time now, I have been slowly and patiently collecting the "Robin Hood" book collection published by Acme Agency. These books were printed over a long period in Argentina and share a distinctive feature: yellow hardcovers. The list is long and incomplete, as there is no uniformity in the number of books published. There were several re-editions, and in them, the numbering sometimes varied, cover images were changed in others, and titles varied as well. In addition to the "classic" list, so to speak, an extra series, an anniversary series, a space series, and a popular science series were also published. The collection consisted, in many cases, of literary classics—mostly youth literature, the vast majority by foreign authors—although the contemporary concept of youth is somewhat different from what it was sixty years ago. However, many of these works are classics of universal literature, many others were adapted for children's literature, and quite a few others, if read carefully, reveal a social subtext (such as Dickens, for instance) that transcends youth literature.
There is a list of 227 titles published on Wikipedia, but I believe it is incomplete, as I know of the existence of other titles—some appearing in another list on a blog, and others that do not appear on either yet definitely exist. Perhaps a collector could help fill in this information, since the list of editions produced was never published by the publishing house, and the list printed on the back of the books is incomplete (they state this themselves) and differs from one book to another.
Original Titles
001 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
002 Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
003 Jo's Boys – Louisa May Alcott
004 Eight Cousins – Louisa May Alcott
005 An Old-Fashioned Girl – Louisa May Alcott
006 A Garland for Girls – Louisa May Alcott
007 Under the Lilacs – Louisa May Alcott
008 Rose in Bloom – Louisa May Alcott
009 An Old-Fashioned Girl (listed as Señoritas) – Louisa May Alcott
010 Jack and Jill – Louisa May Alcott
011 Un viaje al país de los matreros – Fray Mocho
012 Robin Hood – Anonymous
013 The Knights of King Arthur – Anonymous
014 The Adventures of Marco Polo – Marco Polo
015 El capitán rebelde – Rodolfo Bellani
016 El hijo de Yapeyú – Germán Berdiales
017 El primer soldado de la libertad – Germán Berdiales
018 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
019 Juvenilia – Miguel Cané
020 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
021 Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
022 Buffalo Bill – William Frederick Cody
023 Violet – Whitfield Cook
024 The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
025 El cuervo Banjo – Theodora du Bois
026 Heart (Cuore) – Edmondo de Amicis
027 Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
028 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
029 Prince Valiant – Harold Foster
030 Prince Valiant Against Attila – Harold Foster
031 Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur (listed as en el mar) – Harold Foster
032 The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
033 Rupert of Hentzau – Anthony Hope
034 Tales of the Alhambra – Washington Irving
035 Rabbit Hill – Robert Lawson
036 Jerry of the Islands – Jack London
037 Michael, Brother of Jerry – Jack London
038 The Call of the Wild – Jack London
039 White Fang – Jack London
040 En famille – Hector Malot
041 Bomba, the Jungle Boy – Roy Rockwood
042 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Moving Mountain – Roy Rockwood
043 Bomba the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract – Roy Rockwood
044 Bomba the Jungle Boy on Jaguar Island – Roy Rockwood
045 The Tigers of Mompracem (listed as Los tigres de la Malasia) – Emilio Salgari
046 The Pirates of Malaysia (listed as Sandokán) – Emilio Salgari
047 The Mysteries of the Jungle – Emilio Salgari
048 The Two Tigers – Emilio Salgari
049 Bouchard el corsario – Eros Nicola Siri
050 El almirante de bronce – Eros Nicola Siri
051 El malón – Eros Nicola Siri
052 La cruz y la espada – Eros Nicola Siri
053 Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
054 Heidi – Johanna Spyri
055 Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
056 The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson
057 David Balfour (Catriona) – Robert Louis Stevenson
058 Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
059 La isla de la aventura – Robert Louis Stevenson
060 The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
061 Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
062 Artemito y la Princesa – M. Torrey
063 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
064 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
065 Tom Sawyer Abroad – Mark Twain
066 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
067 The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
068 Ancient Man (listed as Historia de las invenciones) – Hendrik Willem van Loon
069 The Story of Mankind (listed as Historia del hombre primitivo) – Hendrik Willem van Loon
070 The Archipelago on Fire – Jules Verne
071 Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster
072 Dear Enemy – Jean Webster
073 The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
074 Luz en la selva – Mario Waissman
075 The Quest for a Throne (listed as A la conquista de un Imperio) – Emilio Salgari
076 The King of the Sea – Emilio Salgari
077 Robito el envidioso – Robert Lawson
078 The Black Corsair – Emilio Salgari
079 Queen of the Caribs – Emilio Salgari
080 The Black Corsair's Daughter – Emilio Salgari
081 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Abandoned City – Roy Rockwood
082 Bomba the Jungle Boy on Death Trail – Roy Rockwood
083 Jorli – Johanna Spyri
084 Capitan Tempesta – Emilio Salgari
085 La capitana del Yucatán – Emilio Salgari
086 La gran aventura – Eros Nicola Siri
087 El lago de los ensueños – Johanna Spyri
088 In the Deserts of New Mexico / Through the Desert – Henryk Sienkiewicz
089 Las hijas de los faraones – Emilio Salgari
090 Cartagine in fiamme – Emilio Salgari
091 El capitán del Djuma – Emilio Salgari
092 The Story Girl – L. M. Montgomery
093 Chronicles of Avonlea – L. M. Montgomery
094 El Capitán Silver – H. Rosemann
095 Rayo Dorado – Rodolfo Bellani
096 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Path of Danger – Roy Rockwood
097 La soberana del campo de oro – Emilio Salgari
098 Le pantere di Algeri – Emilio Salgari
099 El Príncipe Valiente en viaje peligroso – Harold Foster
100 The Blue Castle (listed as El bosque encantado) – L. M. Montgomery
101 La montaña de luz – Emilio Salgari
102 Heidi Grows Up – Charles Tritten
103 Grittli – Johanna Spyri
104 Il continente misterioso – Emilio Salgari
105 El vendedor de loros – Kurt Wiese
106 Un drama en el Océano Pacífico – Emilio Salgari
107 Heidi's Children – Charles Tritten
108 La perla sangrienta – Emilio Salgari
109 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Valley of Skulls – Roy Rockwood
110 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Subterranean River – Roy Rockwood
111 El Príncipe Valiente y la Princesa Dorada – Harold Foster
112 The Black Indies – Jules Verne
113 The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz – Jules Verne
114 Bomba the Jungle Boy Among the Slaves (listed as y los Exploradores) – Roy Rockwood
115 Narraciones Extraordinarias – Jules Verne
116 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Great Forests (listed as en el Continente Negro) – Roy Rockwood
117 Dos mil leguas por debajo de América – Emilio Salgari
118 Bomba the Jungle Boy Among the Pygmies – Roy Rockwood
119 Las amazonas de la muerte – Eros Nicola Siri
120 El oro de los apaches – Frank G. Slaughter
121 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Land of Burning Water (listed as y los caníbales) – Roy Rockwood
122 Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Perilous Kingdom (listed as y los cazadores) – Roy Rockwood
123 Five Weeks in a Balloon – Jules Verne
124 The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens
125 El Príncipe Valiente en el Nuevo Mundo – Harold Foster
126 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Steaming Grotto (listed as y los demonios del río) – Roy Rockwood
127 Bomba and the Hostile Chief – Roy Rockwood
128 El hijo del corsario – R. Bellani
129 Bomba in the Grip of the Cyclone – Roy Rockwood
130 Bomba and the River Demons (listed as y el monstruo acuático) – Roy Rockwood
131 Los versos – Germán Berdiales
132 El hijo de Robín Hood – Paul Caspleton
133 La gran semana de 1810 – Vicente Fidel López
134 La ciudad del oro – Emilio Salgari
135 La pequeña salvaje – Johanna Spyri
136 Águilas de la Estepa – Emilio Salgari
137 Little Lord Fauntleroy – Frances Hodgson Burnett
138 Bomba in the Realm of Danger – Roy Rockwood
139 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (listed as Wilson el Simple) – Mark Twain
140 Bomba in the Smoking Cavern – Roy Rockwood
141 En la llanura de Argelia – Emilio Salgari
142 Les trappeurs de l'Arkansas – Gustave Aimard
143 El maestro de América – Germán Berdiales
144 The Purchase of the North Pole (listed as El pueblo aéreo) – Jules Verne
145 El Príncipe Valiente y los tres desafíos – Harold Foster
146 Los aventureros del mar – Emilio Salgari
147 El hijo de Robin Hood en Nottingham – P. Caspleton
148 Los apaches – Gustave Aimard
149 Facing the Flag – Jules Verne
150 Las aventuras de Simón Wander – Emilio Salgari
151 El rey de las tinieblas – Gustave Aimard
152 The Floating City (Propeller Island) – Jules Verne
153 Martín Fierro – José Hernández
154 Los robinsones Italianos – Emilio Salgari
155 Corsarios del Caribe – Gustave Aimard
156 El tren volador – Emilio Salgari
157 The Danube Pilot – Jules Verne
158 Los bucaneros – Gustave Aimard
159 Indios y gauchos – Various Authors
160 Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
161 Teatro Robin Hood – Germán Berdiales
162 Seventeen (listed as Edad florida) – Booth Tarkington
163 What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge
164 The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
165 Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet – Eleanor Cameron
166 She – H. Rider Haggard
167 Ayesha: The Return of She – H. Rider Haggard
168 King Solomon's Mines – H. Rider Haggard
169 El Príncipe Valiente en viaje a Thule – Harold Foster
170 El Príncipe Valiente y su amigo Boltar – Harold Foster
171 El Príncipe Valiente y los bandidos rebeldes – Harold Foster
172 El Príncipe Valiente libera a Aleta – Harold Foster
173 Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift
174 Katy Did at School (What Katy Did at School) – Susan Coolidge
175 One Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
176 Rhymes and Legends – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
177 Cuentos de los Alpes – Johanna Spyri
178 Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet – Eleanor Cameron
179 Goldilocks – Brothers Grimm
180 Grimm's Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm
181 El fantasma de las niñas – Louisa May Alcott
182 Cuentos de hadas de los Mares del Sur – J. Sherrod & Zel Thayer
183 What Katy Did Next – Susan Coolidge
184 Los documentos secretos – Jan Seyda
185 Las travesuras de Paty (Daddy-Long-Legs sequel / Dear Enemy variant) – Jean Webster
186 Mr. Bass's Planetoid (listed as Mr. Bass y el tiempo) – Eleanor Cameron
187 The Sign of the Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
188 El mantel de Tabby – Louisa May Alcott
189 The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
190 The Clue of the Black Keys (listed as La banda de la Serpiente Negra) – Carolyn Keene
191 Andersen's Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
192 Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
193 The Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet / Mr. Bass's Planetoid variant – Eleanor Cameron
194 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
195 The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
196 El ángel que perdió un ala – María Granata
197 Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet variant (Un misterio para Mr. Bass) – Eleanor Cameron
198 Far Away and Long Ago (listed as Un niño perdido) – W. H. Hudson
199 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
200 Una excursión a los indios ranqueles – Lucio V. Mansilla
201 Tarzan of the Apes (listed as Tarzán en la selva) – Edgar Rice Burroughs
202 Ginés del mar – María Alicia Domínguez
203 The Beasts of Tarzan (listed as Nuevas aventuras de Tarzán en la selva) – Edgar Rice Burroughs
204 Aires nuevos en Buenos Aires – Susana L. de Gomara
205 La casa en los cerros – Olga Eugenia Flores
206 El gallo embrujado – María Granata
207 In Search of the Castaways (South America section) – Jules Verne
208 Aventuras de Bertoldo y Bertoldino – Giulio Cesare Croce
209 The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
210 The Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
211 El cazador de zorros azules – María Granata
212 Tom Sawyer Detective – Mark Twain
213 Which Witch? – Eva Ibbotson
214 Flash Gordon – Alex Raymond
215 Las aventuras del Potrillo Alazán – Elías Cárpena
216 In Search of the Castaways (Australia section) – Jules Verne
217 In Search of the Castaways (Pacific Ocean section) – Jules Verne
218 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
219 Nuestra literatura infantil-juvenil – Juan Carlos Merlo
220 Cuentos del año 2100 – Aaron Cupit
221 El unicornio celeste – Eugenia Calni
222 Milla Loncó – Rodolfo Otero
223 El hijo isleño – Olga B. De Alonso
224 Cuentos del año 2200 – Aaron Cupit
225 Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
226 Xumuc el Huarpe – Adriana Vega
227 La vida de un grande – Alexis Nubile
The following are missing from the list above:
- The Adventures of Young Waverley – Walter Scott
- Aventuras de Buffalo Bill – (Author unspecified)
- Hidden Treasure – Franklin W. Dixon (one edition was numbered 184 or close to it, between 183 and 186)
The previous list mentions book number 89, titled Las hijas de los faraones by Emilio Salgari, whereas the one I own is called Los hijos del faraón by Emilio Salgari.
Extra Volumes
500 Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
505 Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
507 No Family (Sans famille) – Hector Malot
509 El divino maestro – Germán Berdiales
510 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Autobiography – Mark Twain
- Robin Hood – (Luxury Robin Hood Collection)
In these extra volumes (some of them in two parts, like Cervantes' or Twain's), the numbering jumps and then disappears. I wonder: are there other copies whose existence remains unknown? Or was it published this way on purpose? Perhaps someone can help clear up these doubts.
Space Robin Hood Collection
01 A Way Home (listed as Un viaje al pasado) – Evan Hunter
02 Islands in the Sky – Arthur C. Clarke
03 Marooned on Mars – Lester del Rey
04 Son of the Stars – Raymond F. Jones
05 The Secret of the Martian Moons – Donald A. Wollheim
06 Mission to the Moon – Lester del Rey
07 The Second Satellite – Robert S. Richardson
08 Rocket Ship Galileo (listed as Rebelión en el espacio) – Robert A. Heinlein
09 The Lost Planet – Paul Dallas
10 Invaders from Saturn – Philip Latham
11 Danger: Dinosaurs! – Richard Marsten
12 Planet of Light – Raymond F. Jones
Popular Science Series (Acme Publishing)
- Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist – Graham & Lipscomb
- The Science of Life – Lois & Louis Darling
- The Ingenious Dr. Franklin – Jeanette Eaton
- Wonders of Light – Tannenbaum & Stillman
- The Power of the Atom – Joseph M. Dukert
- Abraham Lincoln – J. H. Bothwell
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow... (Science of Tomorrow) – William H. Crouse
- John F. Kennedy – J. H. F. Bothwell
- The Talking Wire: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell – O. J. Stevenson
- How Much and How Many: The Story of Weights and Measures – Jeanne Bendick
- Space in Your Future – Leo Schneider
- The Riddle of Time – Thelma & Corydon Bell
- Exploring Earth and Space – Margaret O. Hyde
- Young Edison – Sterling North
- Living on the Moon – Lawrence Maisak
- The Underwater World – Charles Coombs
- Microbes and Men – Harold J. Simon
- Earth: The Planet Number Three – Franklin M. Branley
In many cases, across different editions, the cover illustrations changed—for example, the books The Adventures of Marco Polo, She, Through the Looking-Glass, and Robinson Crusoe.
In other cases, some books were also published by the same publisher, Acme Agency, but under a different collection, such as the book Ayesha: The Return of She, which was also published in the "Centauro" collection. There is also (or was) another book collection with the same format, very similar dimensions, and yellow hardcovers called the "Dick Turpin Collection" by "Editorial Biblioteca Nueva Buenos Aires," published at least between 1949 and 1951 (I do not know if it ran longer), as well as the "Recreational Narratives Collection" by "Editorial Difusión," published in the 1950s, also featuring a yellow color scheme. However, these latter ones are entirely separate collections.
Links
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_%28colecci%C3%B3n%29
http://www.larazon.com.ar/interesa/tiempo-Robin-Hood-coleccion-libros_0_632100214.html
http://www.jverne.net/portadas/robinhood/robinhood.htm
http://letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com/alzugarat/coleccion_robin_hood.htm
http://bibliotecajuntoalmar.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/coleccion-robin-hood-del-espacio.html
http://leeteundiscomorocha.blogspot.com.ar/2009/01/coleccion-robin-hood.html
http://museodeliteraturapopular.blogspot.com.ar/2008/09/la-coleccin-robin-hood.html
http://arturoarchivos1.blogspot.com.ar/2011/05/la-aventura-de-coleccionar-v-la.html
http://www.anbariloche.com.ar/noticias/2012/07/03/29666-elogio-de-la-coleccion-robin-hood
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