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 children cutting out and assembling the Christmas Manger Scene with white lettering, the rear cover has a statement of publishing and advertising for The Little Golden Library, light edge-wear. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. No pages have been cut (fully intact). The lovely color illustrations by Steffie Lerch 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.
Directions for Assembling: (from the book)
YOUR GOLDEN CHRISTMAS MANGER
In this book you will find Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, and the other characters of the beautiful Christmas story, ready to be cut out and set up for your own Christmas manger.
On the back of each page you will find cutting lines to follow. Cut on the solid lines. Fold on the dotted lines. Fold the side tabs back, and the base forward.
At the center of the book the stable occupies two pages. Cut these both out, tape the halves together, fold the sides forward, and tape the roof to the sides
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)
