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 Mary Poppins sitting on a carousel horse with children, with yellow, white and light green lettering, the rear cover has advertising for Golden Quiz-Me Books. The front cover shows light wear, rear cover shows wear, shelf-wear, edge-wear, corner-wear. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color illustrations by Beverly Edwards & Leon Jason 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 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)
