Little Golden Book #17 Hansel and Gretal 'I' Printing 1943

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Little Golden Book #17 Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and William Grimm, pictures by Erika Weihs, 1943, 'I' printing, Simon and Schuster, New York, 42 pages.

Cover is in good condition with edgewear, bumped corners and foil spine missing in spots. Previous owner's name on inside front cover. Pages are clean with a few having dog ears. The binding is tight. No price on cover.

The Artists and Writers Guild produced these books and Western Printing and Lithographing did the printing. The first 35 books had blue bindings and included dust jackets. After that, the dust jacket was dropped from the line and the bindings were changed to gold foil with black designs. Later foil colors were silver, red or black with various designs. In 1958, Western Publishing and Lithographing and Pocket Books Inc. became joint publishers. The company name was changed to Golden Press, Inc.

The price of the early books was 25 cents. In 1962, the price was increased to 29 cents, 39 cents in 1968, 49 cents in 1974, 59 cents in 1977, 69 cents in 1979, 89 cents in 1982 and 99 cents in 1986.

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Item ID: BK1111

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