Description
Very Good- Dust Jacket; with some staining to the rear cover, a dust jacket protector has been added. The Very Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a blue paper spine, the front cover shows a young girl counting, a puppy, shoe and sock, with White and black lettering, the rear cover is advertising for The Little Golden Library (42 titles listed), the illustrations on the dust jacket match the binding. The binding pages show some toning. light edge-wear to the front cover, small chip at the head of the spine. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by Corinne Malvern can be found on every page. The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
First Edition (No additional Printings listed on the Copyright page)
About the illustrator: (From the Night before Christmas Golden Book)
Corinne Malvern has excelled in two of the arts. She was a successful child actress, then studied art, and has since exhibited her work and done commercial art. She has illustrated the GOLDEN CHRISTMAS Book and many of the Little Golden Books, including Nursery Songs, Counting Rhymes, Christmas Carols, Hymns, Poetry, Singing Games, Up in the Attic, When You Were A BABY, and How Bic. She has illustrated also several of the new Golden Story Books.
About Little Golden Books
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)
