Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Good- binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a foil spine, the front cover shows Lassie with red and black lettering, the rear cover is advertising for Big Golden Books for Growing Minds. The binding pages show some toning, light soiling and wear to the cover, corner-wear, wear on the rear cover, wear at the head and foot of the spine. The binding is tight and the pages are clean, with writing on inside front cover in space provided, and writing on title page, short tares on 4 pages at the bottom edge. The lovely color illustrations by Joseph Dreany 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 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)
