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R068

Very hard to find Big and Better Little Books first edition comic book and old west stories from a major collection of Whitman Publishing Books! Included in this offering are 4 original first edition books published by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin. This set includes 4.5" x 3.5" 425 page Better Little Book Kayo and Moon Mullins and the One Man Gang by Frank Willard (copyright 1939), Better Little Book book 4.5" x 3.5" 425 page Apple Mary and Dennie's Lucky Apples by Martha Orr (copyright 1939), Big Little Book 4.5" x 3.5" 425 page Hairbreadth Harry in Department QT by J. M. Alexander (copyright 1935), and Better Little Book 425 page Buck Jones and the Killers of Crooked Butte by Gaylord Du Bois (copyright 1940). All these books are illustrated throughout on essentially every other page with fabulous 1930's comic book style art illustrating the story. The books are all in good condition with edges and spine showing normal moderate scuffing but completely intact with no page tears and modest age- toning. While the books are all tight, they are fragile as are most of the Whitman Big Little Books and Better Little Books of this age. We found perhaps 5 very minor page tears less than 0.25" in the Kayo book and the Apple Mary book and Buck Jones books have a signed and dated owner inscription on the inside of the front cover. You can easily pay $30 or more for one of these books by themselves at a used bookstore- great as a gift for any collector or lover of detective stories! (az)

$65.00/set of 4