Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Very Good+ binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a foil spine, the front cover shows children and animals decorating a Christmas tree with white lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, light edge-wear. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color illustrations by Retta Worchester can be found at the turn of every page. “This is brand new book, Illustrated Especially for GOLDEN BOOKS.” The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
First Edition, “A” is present on the last page.
About the publishers:
The Little Golden Books were printed in September 1942 and for sale in stores in October. One and a half million books were sold in just five months. With an initial series of twelve titles each having a print run of 50,000 copies, the first Little Golden Books were priced at a very affordable 25 cents each. Little Golden Books started with publishing firm Simon & Schuster; Western Printing and Lithographing Company in Racine, Wisconsin was Simon & Schuster’s partner in the Little Golden Books venture, with Western handling print operations. Ownership and control of the series have changed several times since; today, Penguin Random House is its current publisher. (Wikipedia)
