Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Good+ binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a paper spine, the front cover shows a store front with children lookin in the window and children in a wagon, people in the door, with red and yellow lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, .5″ chip on the front cover hinge and the same on the inside of the front cover, corner-wear, light wear at the head and foot of the spine. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by Lenora Fees Combes 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/illustrator: (from the book)
Lenora Fees Combes, a graduate of the Cleve- land School of Art, has painted murals, designed wallpaper, and worked as an interior decorator This is her first book. Mrs. Combes and her husband live in Berea, Ohio, with their small daughter. Ceramics, antiques, first editions, and gardening are their hobbies.
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)
