Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Very Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a paper spine, the front cover shows motorcycle officer with a boy, barn in the background with multicolor and black lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, light edge-wear, light corner-wear, front hinge is cracked, rear hinge has a small chip at the base. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by J.P. Miller 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.
About the author: (from the book)
Helen Palmer has written many children’s books and magazine stories under the varying names of Marion Palmer, Helen Palmer, and Helen Geisel. She attended Oxford University, where she met and married Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote To THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET. They live in California and make frequent trips to New York. Helen Palmer prepared the stories in the Giant Golden Book WALT DISNEY’s UNCLE REMUS STORIEs, and the Little Golden Book Walt Disney’s UNCLE REMUS.
About the illustrator: (From the book)
J.P. Miller has designed characters and backgrounds for Disney feature pictures and, during World War Il, prepared Navy films. He has illustrated Margaret Wise Brown’s WONDERFUL STORY Book, a Big Golden Book, and LITTLE PEEWEE, or NOW OPEN THE BOX, a Little Golden Book.
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)
