Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Very Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a paper spine, the front cover shows a circus scene with a dog jumping out of a box, ring master, a family of five watching, with black lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, light corner-wear, dark spots on the spine, some spots on the rear cover. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by J.P. Miller can be found at the turn of 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)
Dorothy Kunhardt’s understanding of childhood and unique humor have distinguished many children’s books, among them Pat the Bunny, THE TELEPHONE Book, and MORE PLEASE. Mrs. Kunhardt lives in Morristown, New Jersey.
About the illustrator: (from the book)
J.P. Miller has designed characters and back- grounds for Disney feature pictures, and prepared Navy films during World War II. His first book illustrations are those in Margaret Wise Brown’s Wonderful Story Book, Big 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)
