Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Very Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a foil spine, the front cover shows nine different flags, with white and yellow lettering, the rear cover is advertising for Giant Golden Books for Growing Minds, the front cover has, light edge-wear, light corner-wear, rear cover shows wear, has small chip at the base of the spine which does not effect text or illustrations, corner-wear, Title page has a short tear at the hinge. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color illustrations by Stephen Cook 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. Wikipedia
