Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Good+ binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a paper spine, the front cover shows duck on a ladder with his friends building and painting a sign, with red and black lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, a small tear at the bottom and top of the front cover hinge. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color illustrations by Richard Scarry can be found on every page. The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
First Edition, “A” is present on the last page.
About the author: (from the book)
Kathryn and Byron Jackson have written a number of Golden Books, including FARM Stories, Cowboys and Indians, and Busy TIMMY. Both are graduates of Pratt Institute, and did commercial art before making careers of children’s writing. They have two young sons, Peter and Timmy.
About the illustrator: (from the book)
After graduating from the Boston Museum School Richard Scarry did magazine art; during World War Il he was an art director in the army. He has illustrated Two LITTLE MINERs, also a Little Golden Book
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)
