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 79¢ titles with publisher's coupon on rear flap, clipped jacket but 79¢ on publisher's list, Scarce, delightful. Dustjacket only.
Harper & Brothers, [1939]. $1.25 on jacket. Newberry's Barkis [1938] reviewed on back. Dustjacket only.
Macmillan, [1939]. $2.50 on flap, list of Lathrop's books on back flap, with Presents for Lupe [1940] not mentioned. (nor Hittle, Happy Flute which she illustrated in 1939.) probable 1st or year of publication. Dustjacket only.
Chicago: Albert Whitman, "Price 50c" on flap, rear flap has The Easy Library, over 40 titles "New Reduced Price 50¢ 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]. 50¢ 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.