Description
No dust jacket as issued. The Very Good+ binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with foil spine. Front cover shows a girl and boy working in the garden. Back cover is advertisement for the Golden Library. Light soiling to front cover, slight bumping to corners. Name written in This Book Belongs to… Color illustrations by Gertrude Elliot. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.0″ tall x 6.7″ wide.
First Edition, “A” is present on the last page.
About the publisher:
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)
