My First Golden Learning Library : the Book of a Thru the Book of W X Y Z 16 Volume a Golden Book Set by Watson, Jane Werner and Dugan William - 1965

New York: Artists & Writers Guild (Simon & Schuster), 1944. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Corinne Malvern. The 1944 6th printing, IN THE UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and VG (with just a touch of wear at the spine ends) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a bit of light chipping to the spine crown. Arranged by Leah Gale, nicely illustrated thruout by Corinne Malvern.

New York: Simon and Schuster, circa 1959.. Color collage on Little Golden Book Layout Sheet board. 10.5 x 14.5 inches. Signed "Garth Williams" in pencil with various notes to the printer. Inventory no. 3.006615.Provenance: Estate of the artist.Garth William, American Illustrator, A Life by E. & J. Wallace, pp. 144, 224.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. First Edition, "A" Printing (Special Clothbound Edition). Special Clothbound Edition. Very good. 8vo., unpaginated, color & b& white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. -- Light edge wear to the extremities, Top edge near the middle of the front cover has rubbed spot to the cloth (see photo). The last blank page and endsheet has three minor closed tears at the bottom edge. "This book belongs to" filled out in pencil. -- Internally the book is clean and tight. The back cover lists seven titles available in clothbound editions. --.

New York: Golden Press/Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1955. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gertrude Elliott. Little Golden Book. "B" printing (noted on last page. #A30. Original price $.25. No dust jacket. No writing. Attached wheel with picture name below works well. Unpaginated. Cover scuffing, corner tip and spine ends' wear, and 2 coating chips on edge of rear cover. Page toning.

Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951. First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Laid in is a business card of the publisher with a note referencing this was signed in 1953. Rare and desirable signed by Walt Disney. The twelfth Disney animated feature film, Cinderella was released on February 15th 1950 after two years in production. It became the greatest critical and commercial hit for the studio since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of 1937, and helped reverse the studio's fortunes. They were, at the time, $4 million in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. The beloved Little Golden Books series of children's titles were the brainchild of Georges Duplaix, who in 1940 was head of Artists and Writers Guild Inc., a division of Western Publishing. With the idea of producing a… Read More

New York: Artists & Writers Guild (Simon & Schuster), 1944. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Corinne Malvern. The 1944 6th printing, IN THE UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and VG (with just a touch of wear at the spine ends) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a bit of light chipping to the spine crown. Arranged by Leah Gale, nicely illustrated thruout by Corinne Malvern.

New York: Simon and Schuster, circa 1959.. Color collage on Little Golden Book Layout Sheet board. 10.5 x 14.5 inches. Signed "Garth Williams" in pencil with various notes to the printer. Inventory no. 3.006615.Provenance: Estate of the artist.Garth William, American Illustrator, A Life by E. & J. Wallace, pp. 144, 224.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. First Edition, "A" Printing (Special Clothbound Edition). Special Clothbound Edition. Very good. 8vo., unpaginated, color & b& white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. -- Light edge wear to the extremities, Top edge near the middle of the front cover has rubbed spot to the cloth (see photo). The last blank page and endsheet has three minor closed tears at the bottom edge. "This book belongs to" filled out in pencil. -- Internally the book is clean and tight. The back cover lists seven titles available in clothbound editions. --.

New York: Golden Press/Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1955. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gertrude Elliott. Little Golden Book. "B" printing (noted on last page. #A30. Original price $.25. No dust jacket. No writing. Attached wheel with picture name below works well. Unpaginated. Cover scuffing, corner tip and spine ends' wear, and 2 coating chips on edge of rear cover. Page toning.

Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951. First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Laid in is a business card of the publisher with a note referencing this was signed in 1953. Rare and desirable signed by Walt Disney. The twelfth Disney animated feature film, Cinderella was released on February 15th 1950 after two years in production. It became the greatest critical and commercial hit for the studio since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of 1937, and helped reverse the studio's fortunes. They were, at the time, $4 million in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. The beloved Little Golden Books series of children's titles were the brainchild of Georges Duplaix, who in 1940 was head of Artists and Writers Guild Inc., a division of Western Publishing. With the idea of producing a… Read More