Description
No Dust Jacket. The Good+ binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a blue paper spine, the front cover shows children kneeling with a Prayer Book surrounded by decorations of animals, purple and black lettering, the rear cover is advertising for The Little Golden Library (16 titles listed). The binding pages show some toning, wear to the cover, wear to the spine, name dated Christmas 1943 on the first page, stain on the copyright page and first page which does not effect the text or illustrations. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by Rachel Taft Dixon can be found on every page. The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
Stated: Fourth Printing, January, 1943
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)
