Description
No dust jacket. The Very Good+ binding is yellow paper over boards, illustrated with Road Runner and two guys chasing him, rear has a description of the book and advertising for “Big Little Books.. Color illustrations by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. at the turn of the page. Page 247 has a .3″ x 1″ missing from page edge, does not affect text or illustration. A Big Little Book 23, number 2023, 249 pages plus 3 pages of adds. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 5.0″ tall x 3.8” wide.
First Edition
About the book (from the book)
Space scientists and sly spies add to the hilarious confusion as the Beep family and Wile E Coyote in developing his Super Beep-Catcher.
About the publisher: (from Wikipedia)
Whitman Publishing is an American book publishing company which started as a subsidiary of the Western Printing & Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin. In about 1915, Western began printing and binding a line of juvenile books for the Hamming-Whitman Publishing Company of Chicago. A few years later Hamming-Whitman went bankrupt, and Western took over the company, found success in selling the inventory of low-cost juvenile books, and formed the Whitman Publishing Company
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From the early 1900s to the mid 1980s, Whitman was a popular children’s book publisher. For decades it was a subsidiary of Western Publishing Company. In 1933 the company signed a licensing contract with Walt Disney to produce books based on Disney cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.
Books about movie and television dog stars were published. Whitman also published Whitman Authorized Editions with stories featuring fictionalized versions of popular actresses of the 1940s and, later, novels based upon popular television shows, such as Captain Kangaroo, The Patty Duke Show, and The Beverly Hillbillies.
One of Whitman’s most popular mystery series was Trixie Belden. In 1977 they launched the Trixie Belden Fan Club, and issued a lower-priced paperback book format of the series. At the time some booksellers stated that the Trixie Belden books were more popular than Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys books. Whitman published the Big Little Books and Better Little Books. The early Big Little Books had print runs of 250,000 to 350,000 for each title, with no reprints.
Whitman now primarily produces coin and stamp collecting books and materials. The company is owned by Anderson Press.
