Description
No Dust Jacket. The Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a blue paper spine, the front cover shows a giant, a bean stalk and a boy climbing the bean stalk, red, grey and black lettering, the rear cover is advertising for The Little Golden Library (12 titles listed). The binding pages show some toning, light wear to the cover, light wear to the spine, name in the space provided on the inside of the cover, Board of Education stamp dated Apr 1943 on the copyright page, small tears to several pages and 2 pages with a section missing 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 Winfield Hoskins can be found on every page. The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
Stated: Third Printing, October 15, 1942
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)
