Something Surprising. DUSTJACKET ONLY
Oxford Books for boys and girls. [1939] 1.00 on jacket, Brownies Hush! [1938] on back flap, 1943 book not mentioned. Dustjacket only.
Scroll down to view! About 40 years ago we found a box of jackets stored in the upstairs of the old Fire Hall by a children's librarian at our former college Lab School. The box surfaced earlier this month and to our surprise there were over a hundred mid-century jackets.. About half are from the late 1930s; most are in very nice condition, unclipped, in the $1.00 to $2.50 range.
1. Jackets were folded for storage, so I noted when the crease was in the center spine. Not too bad, but visible, see Coatsworth's Five Bushel Farm.
2. Dates within brackets [1939] indicate copywrite date or first ed. date NOT printing. These jackets are clearly early, and we can make a good guess using other titles mentioned/omitted and price, but it is not possible to ascertain a first edition on most jackets.
Oxford Books for boys and girls. [1939] 1.00 on jacket, Brownies Hush! [1938] on back flap, 1943 book not mentioned. Dustjacket only.
Scribners (clipped dw). Dustjacket only.
Garden City Publishing Company, [1938] four 79ยข titles with publisher's coupon on rear flap, clipped jacket but 79ยข on publisher's list, Scarce, delightful. Dustjacket only.
Harper & Brothers, [1939]. $1.25 on jacket. Newberry's Barkis [1938] reviewed on back. Dustjacket only.
Chicago: Albert Whitman, "Price 50c" on flap, rear flap has The Easy Library, over 40 titles "New Reduced Price 50ยข each, by grade. From late 1930s. Dustjacket only.
Houghton, Mifflin Company [1958]. (2.50 on jacket) author bio on back flap. Dustjacket only.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company ($2.50 on jacket. Dustjacket only.
Junior Literary Guild 9 Rockefeller Plaza, no publisher credited, has $2.00 price and illustrated back of the original Whitman [1939]. Dustjacket only.
Grosset & Dunlap, Price 50c on flap, [1935] 10 titles from 1935 and 1936 listed on flaps with this at top. Cinder, Four Friends etc. so probably an early printing but not a first. Dustjacket only.
Harcourt, Brace and Company. [1955]. "A Cap for Mul Chand" [1950] on rear flap. Clipped. Dustjacket only.
New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, [1979] no price on jacket, must be a book club because our 1sts of this bookhave all been priced. Dustjacket only.
Oxford, Oxford Books for Boys and Girls, [1939]. $1.00 on flap, review of Bandmaster's Holiday [1938].on back. Dustjacket only.
[New York] Oxford, "Oxford books for boys and girls" [1939] $1.25 on flap, A Wish for Timothy [1938] $1.00 reviewed on back flap. Dustjacket only.
[New York] Oxford, "Oxford books for boys and girls" [1939] $1.25 on flap, A Wish for Timothy [1938] $1.00 reviewed on back flap. Dustjacket only.
New York: William Morrow and Company 425 Fourth Avenue. [1952]. 2.75 on jacket, title list on back. Dustjacket only.
Harcourt, Brace, and Company [1950]. (2.95 on jacket) apparent 1st, only Hurry Back [49[ and Alice's Family [48] cited. 1952 author's book not mentioned, Dustjacket only.
[Simon & Schuster [1939] no publisher on jacket , no other books mentioned, 1st or very early printing, $2.00 on jacket. Earlyish copies exist which still have the 12 little girls error and yet have 2.50 jackets, but I cannot be sure that this is a first issue. Dustjacket only.....
Doubleday Doran, [1930] but review of Garram the Chief 1932 $1.75 on back flap so could be the JLG edition], Dustjacket only.
Chicago: Children's Press [1955] $2.50 on flap, Author bio on back flap, no other Tizz books mentioned. Dustjacket only.
New York: The Dial Press 750 Third Avenue clipped, four earlier books mentioned on flaps.[1970] [1970], Dustjacket only.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1946] clipped, review of The Fast Sooner Hound [1942] on back flap, thus first or early. Dustjacket only.
E. P. Dutton, 300 Fourth Avenue, [1939], 2.00 on flap. Follows Adventures of Lappy Cushion Tales reviewed on back flap. Dustjacket only.
E. P. Dutton, 300 Fourth Avenue, [1939]. 2.00 on flap. Follows Adventures of Lappy Cushion Tales [1936] reviewed on back flap. Dustjacket only.
Grosset & Dunlap, Children of all Lands Stories, [1930]. 50ยข on flap, List of Brandeis series on back flap, and author bio and 13 titles now issued on back. In neither is this book first listed, so early reprint. Dustjacket only.
The Macmillan Company, [1938] 1.00 on jacket, 8 others by author illustrator. on back flap, 1940 sequel not mentioned thus first or early. Dustjacket only.