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BIG LITTLE BOOKS
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Revised: Thursday, May 01, 2008
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WHITMAN
BIG BIG BOOKS
BIG BIG BOOKS, Whitman, 1930's. Same format as their
famous BIG LITTLE BOOKS, only much larger. Color covers w/b&w illus. on each page.
Much scarcer than their smaller counterparts. Each book measures approx. 7 1/2" by 9
1/2", and has approx. 316 pages.
#4068 TOM MIX AND THE SCOURGE OF PARADISE VALLEY, 1937. Interior is near mint. The book is tight and very clean. Some minor chipping on top and bottom edge of spine, overall the covers are vg/exc, illus. TOM rearing up on his horse TONY, while waving his hat. 89.95
#4069 BUCK JONES AND THE NIGHT RIDERS, 1937. Interior is near mint, pages are starting to dry. Book is very tight and clean. Covers and spine are excellent with nice close-up of BUCK. very nice display item. 125.00
#703-10 BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD in SOME FUN! by Chic Young. The New Better Little Book Series, ©1949. Interior is tight and clean, cover is bright and vivid with minor wear. Overall, excellent plus 35.00
#703-10 BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD in SOME FUN! by Chic Young. The New Better Little Book Series, ©1949. interior is tight and clean. cover is loose, clear tape on spine. name written on cover. great reading copy. 10.00
#703-10 BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD in SOME FUN! by Chic Young. The New Better Little Book Series, ©1949. MISSING title page and first story page. spine intact but shows wear. displays okay, nice for filler. overall good. 9.50
#1487 BLONDIE in BABY DUMPLING AND ALL by Chic Young. 1941 Better Little Book. "Flip Movie" pages. interior is tight and clean. spine is still attached by worn. still displays decently. the covers are good plus to very good. 24.00
#1430 BLONDIE - COUNT COOKIE IN TOO!. 1947. from Chic Young's comic strip. interior is tight and clean. overall cover worn. NO spine. 10.00
#1174 BUCK JONES IN THE ROARING WEST. 1935. Has 78 Universal Pictures movie photos. Tight and clean. excellent plus. 55.00
#1461 BUCK JONES & THE ROCK CREEK CATTLE WAR by Gaylord Dubois. Illus. by Al Lewin & Ken Ernst. 1938. This is the 2nd edition with the solid black BLB logo on cover. minor scribbling on blank fronticepage, otherwise very clean and tight. excellent plus. 39.50
#1116 BUCK JONES in RIDE 'EM COWBOY from Universal Pictures, 1937. Has 87 b&w stills from the movie. Interior is very clean. Spine is tight, no flaws. Small dings along top edge of cover. Overall excellent plus or nicer. 75.00
#1116 BUCK JONES in RIDE 'EM COWBOY from Universal Pictures, 1937. Has 87 b&w stills from the movie. Interior is very clean. Spine is tight, no flaws. Slightly warped, covers excellent. overall, very good plus to excellent. 60.00
#1188 BUCK JONES IN THE FIGHTING RANGERS. 1936. Missing the blank fronticepage and the title page. Very tight and clean. Has 68 b&w stills from the movie. excellent to near mint - but missing title page! 49.50
BUCK ROGERS 25TH CENTURY A.D. Softbound, Cocomalt Premium. Very tight and clean. Minor edge wear, slight soiling, missing title page. 65.00
BUCK ROGERS AND THE PLANETOID PLOT by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins. #1197. tight and clean, minimal wear. excellent plus. 85.00
Walt Disney's CINDERELLA. 711-10. "New Better Little Book". Taller and thinner. 1950. Interior is tight and clean. Scotch tape on top inch of the spine. very good - or nicer. 20.00
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT AND THE SECRET SQUADRON #1488. Story by R.R. Winterbotham with illustrations by Erwin L. Hess. Based on the radio show. 1941. Spine intact. Tight. Age spotting on cover. excellent plus or better! 65.00
#1402 CHESTER GUMP in the "Pole to Pole Flight". 1937. reprinted from the newspaper strips. Sidney Smith.. interior tight and clean. spine intact but worn. good plus to very good. 25.00
#734 CHESTER GUMP at SILVER CREEK RANCH. 1933 First Printing (only 7 titles listed on back page). no spine, missing the first half of book. cover displays as very good. 5.00
#1118. DAN DUNN SECRET OPERATIVE 48 by Norman Marsh. 1934. interior is tight and clean. spine is intact. cover shows wear with heavy edge wear. good to very good. 20.00
#1125. DAN DUNN Secret Operative 48 ON THE TRAIL OF THE COUNTERFEITERS. missing the title page and first few pages. starts at page #19. normal age wear. interior clean. 12.50
#1492. DAN DUNN Secret Operative 48 and THE DOPE RING. by Norman Marsh. 1940. interior is tight and clean. spine intact. wear to corners and base of spine. very good plus to excellent. 39.50
#1495. DICK TRACY RETURNS. 1939. from Chester Gould's comic strip. Storyline based upon Republic Pictures serial. no spine, no front cover. back cover intact. story is complete, tight and clean. 5.00
DONALD DUCK UP IN THE AIR. #1486 Better Little Book. 1945. Tight and clean, but out of square, missing first blank fronticepage. overall very good plus. 35.00
FLAME BOY and The INDIANS' SECRET. #1464. by Oren Arnold, illustrated by Sekakuku "Hopi Indian Artist". 1938. spine intact, tight. very minor edge wear to cover. excellent. 42.50
FLASH GORDON & THE TOURNAMENTS OF MONGO. #1171. 1935. Missing the first BLANK fronticepage. Tiny hole in spine, and another in back cover. Complete, clean interior. overall very good. 65.00
FLASH GORDON & THE MONSTER OF MONGO. #1166. 1935 by Alex Raymond. complete. pages are lightly browned. spine intact but shows some wear at top and bottom. Spine is beginning to loosen. overall very good. 55.00
Whitman Big Little Book #1121 FRANK MERRIWELL AT YALE by Burt L. Standish, illus. by Jack Wilhelm, ©1935 by King Feature Syndicate. 428 pages, tight and clean. Minor cover edge wear, spine tight. Back cover has small tear near spine in lower right (nothing awful). There is minor chipping on a few of the pages bottom border due to factory miscut. Cover is bright and vivid. Overall very good plus to excellent. 35.00
#1164 FRECKLES and The LOST DIAMOND MINE. 1937 by Merrill Blosser. missing the title page and first few pages. the first page is a picture, and page #14 on back. shows wear. interior is clean. 12.50
Whitman Better "Big Little Book" #1434, GENE AUTRY and the GUN-SMOKE RECKONING, 1943. Someone wrote their name on fronticepage, otherwise extremely tight and clean throughout. Cover is bright. Near mint copy! 50.00
Whitman Better "Big Little Book" #1409, GENE AUTRY and RAIDERS OF THE RANGE, 1946. Youngster wrote name in crayon on inside flyleaf. Outside of that, interior is clean and tight. Cover shows some edge wear. exc 40.00
#1470 JUNIOR NEBBS JOINS THE CIRCUS by Sol Hess. 1939. missing pages, starts with page #53. cover worn, but still okay for display. 8.00
JUNIOR NEBB on the DIAMOND BAR RANCH by Sol Hess. #1422. 1938. based on the comic strip. Spine intact, tight. Has age spotting. very good to excellent. 35.00
Whitman Big Little Book #1442 KEN MAYNARD AND THE GUN WOLVES OF THE GILA by Gaylord Dubois, illustrated by Gene Baxter. Tight and clean throughout. Overall excellent to near mint condition. 34.50
#1117 LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY and the ORPHAN HOUSE. 1936. by Brandon Walsh. interior tight and clean. cover shows overall wear. NO spine. 10.00
#1140 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE and The Big Train Robbery. 1934 Harold Gray. pages missing from front and back. some coloring. spine intact. overall wear to cover. inexpensive display filler. 5.00
MICKEY MOUSE AND THE BAT BANDIT. Big Little Book #1153, First Printing variation. 1935. interior is tight and clean. Missing the spine. normal age wear and soiling. very good BUT no spine! 25.00
#1160. MICKEY MOUSE AND BOBO THE ELEPHANT. 1935. one page is loose, otherwise tight. spine is intact. there is a vertical crease in back cover with small pin holes. a few small pinholes in the spine. cover displays very nicely. very good. 35.00
#725 MOTHER GOOSE, 576 PAGES OF. 1934. odd size, extremely thick. One of the rarest BLB'S out there. This one has it's fault. Worn, creases in the softbound covers, spine wear. Crayoned on first few pages. Has title page then page #5 "Cross Patch" - it may be possibly missing a page before it. Missing page 183/184 and page 185/186. The book is broken from the thick spine at that point. This is only the 3rd example of this book that I have come across in 30 years of searching. I have owned thousands of BLBs. This is still nice enough to fill that gap in your collection! overall, fair to good. 50.00
#1445 PAT NELSON - ACE OF TEST PILOTS. Douglas Lee. 1937. fronticepage has penciling, otherwise tight and clean. spine intact. minor warpage. vertical indent on the right side of front cover. very good or nicer! 22.50
Whitman New Better Little Book #702-10, RED RYDER ACTING SHERIFF, Fred Harman, 1949. Clean, tight, covers bright. Virtually unused copy, near mint to mint! 45.00
Whitman Big Little Book #1122 SCRAPPY from the Columbia Pictures, Winkler Film Corporation, a Charles Mintz Production, adapted by Pat Patterson, ©1934. Very early Big Little Book, larger size format. Interior is tight and clean. Spine is complete, bottom ½ is separating and needs to be reglued. Cover is clean. Very good plus condition. VERY scarce!! 60.00
#1112 SKEEZIX IN AFRICA by Frank King. 1934. first Skeezix Big Little Book. interior is tight and clean. spine intact. spine wear on edges. overall, cover is very good. 35.00
#1152 SMILIN' JACK AND THE STRATOSPHERE ASCENT by Zack Mosley, based on the comic strip, 1937. 426 pages, interior is tight and clean. Spine is there, ½” split at seams. Overall very good. 29.00
#1152 SMILIN' JACK AND THE STRATOSPHERE ASCENT by Zack Mosley, based on the comic strip, 1937. 426 pages, interior is tight and clean. Spine intact. front cover has 1"split on bottom of spine. still, displays as very good or nicer. 34.00
#1477 SMITTY GOING NATIVE. 1938, Walter Berndt. interior tight and clean. spine intact, but separated from front cover. someone has painted the white letters in the name "SMITTY" a reddish orange, and given the characters a "tan". great reading copy. 12.50
#1404 SMITTY AND HERBY "Lost Among the Indians". 1941, Walter Berndt. Flip Movie features. All Pictures Comics. interior is tight and clean. spine intact, but starting to separate from front cover. spine wear at bottom. very good. 32.00
SPIKE KELLY OF THE COMMANDOS #1467. an original story by Art Elder, illustrated by J.R. White. 1943. Spine intact, very tight. excellent to near mint. 44.00
Better Little Book #1413 TAILSPIN TOMMY & THE LAST TRANSPORT. Hal Forrest. 1939. Based on the Comic Strip. tight and clean. near mint. 39.50
#1407 TARZAN - LORD OF THE JUNGLE by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Rex Maxon artwork. Art from the daily newspaper strips. 1946. Missing the blank frontice page. Name written on inside front cover. Tight. overall very good. 39.50
#1410 THE BEASTS OF TARZAN. Edgar Rice Burroughs. 1937. Rex Maxon artwork. Art from the daily newspaper strips. Very tight and clean. excellent to near mint. 49.50
#1492 TERRY LEE - FLIGHT OFFICER U.S.A. Milton Caniff newspaper strip art from Terry and the Pirates. 1944. tight and clean. excellent to near mint. 39.50
Whitman Big Little Book #1429 THE TEXAS KID by Steve Saxton, illus. by Milt Youngren. ©1937 by Stephen Slesinger. 3 interior pages have small chips on top edge, otherwise interior is tight and clean. Spine is intact, but cover and spine show overall use. Overall, very good. 19.50
#1193 TIM McCOY IN THE WESTERNER. 1938. A Columbia Picture. 62 pictures from the film. this is the first TIM McCOY BLB. Missing the title page. tight and clean. excellent. 39.50
#1173 TOM MIX PLAYS A LONE HAND. story by Wilton West, pictures by Hal Arbo. 1935. Oversized format. Tight and clean. light soiling on cover. very good plus. 35.00
Whitman Big Little Book #1407 WINGS OF THE U.S.A. by Peter A. Wyckoff, illustrated by Thomas Hickey. ©1940. Illustration of CHINA CLIPPER on front cover. Clean overall, cover is nice and bright. Book is a bit “out of square”. Overall, excellent 34.50
#2008 POPEYE "Ghost Ship to Treasure Island". by Paul S. Newman. hardbound. 1967 with color artwork throughout. First Printing with the white trademark logo on the blue end papers. tight and clean. cover is very good. 20.00
Whitman #2011 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. in "The Calcutta Affair". by George Elrick. 1967 with color artwork throughout. very good to excellent. 20.00
Whitman #2014 THE FLINTSTONES in "The Case of the Many Missing Things". by Paul S. Newman. 1968, hardbound. color artwork throughout. tight and clean. crease in cover. cover is good to very good. 14.00
Whitman #2019 THE FANTASTIC FOUR in "The House of Horrors". Based on the Marvel Comic book heroes. 1968, written by William Johnston. Full page, full color artwork throughout. Vertical crease in font cover. Interior is tight and clean. Overall excellent plus to near mint - BUT cover creased. 17.00
Whitman #2022. MAJOR MATT MASON in "Moon Mission" by George Elrick. 1968. Full color illustrations. 252 pages. Interior is tight and very clean. Cover looks good. There are minor cover "wrinkles". Back cover is creased. overall very good to excellent. 20.00
Whitman #2024. Hanna Barbera's SHAZAN "The Glass Princess". 1968 by Don Christiansen. color illustrated. interior is tight and clean. creases and edge wear to cover. very good or nicer. 14.00
GUNSMOKE, Big Little Book, Whitman TV Series, 1958. Green cover w/JAMES ARNESS as Matt Dillon, w/drawn gun, his horse behind him, nm.... 18.95
Miscellaneous WHITMAN character books
SMILIN' JACK and the DAREDEVIL GIRL PILOT. based on the Zack Mosley comic strip. 1942. Whitman Authorized Edition. Hardbound with full color illustrated dust jacket. 248 pages. tight and clean. dust jacket is intact and excellent. 24.00
Wee Book. LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE and the PINCH-PENNYS. Harold Gray, 1934. softbound. small format, approx. 3" by 3.75". tight and clean. spine intact. couple light, vertical cover creases. very good plut to excellent, or nicer. 39.50
Soft cover. WILL ROGERS by Jerome Beatty. Saalfield #1576. b&w photos from Fox Film. 1935. tight and clean. normal age wear. very good plus condition. 45.00
Saalfield hard cover Big Little Book #1155 $1000 REWARD "A Detective Story for Boys" by James McNeal, illus. by Henry Muheim. 1938. Tight and clean, spine intact. Overall, near mint, C-9+ condition. 35.00
Saalfield Big Little Book #1169 BULLET BENTON by John Welch and J.W. McGuire, adapted from the Famous Adventure Strip, ©1939. Cowboy story with boxing scene on front cover. Interior is tight and clean, cover is bright and vivid. Overall near mint condition, C-9+. 35.00
#1607 CORLEY OF THE WILDERNESS TRAILS (Boy Scout) by Leonard K. Smith, illus. by Louis G. Schroeder. 1937. in co-operation with the BSA. Softbound, oversized. tight and clean. excellent plus. 39.50
Saalfield Big Little Book #1172 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, story by Charles C. Taylor, Paramount Pictures Cartoon, Produced by Max Fleischer, directed by David Fleischer. ©1939. 2 Pages have tears, 1 page has piece torn off bottom. Spine is separating from back cover. Cover itself is bright and vivid. Very clean. Overall, very good. SCARCE and desirable title in this series. 49.50
Big Little Book. THE HOCKEY SPARE by Harold M. Sherman, illustrated by Robert A. Graef. Saalfield #1125 "Sports Book" Series Big Little Book. 1937. Full color cover, spin intact. Tight and clean. Overall excellent or better. 42.50
#1314 JACKIE COOPER in PECK'S BAD BOY. by Charles T. Clinton. 1934. Photos from the movie. Softbound, oversized. tight and clean. very good plus to excellent. 45.00
#1598 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY starring Freddie Bartholomew. 1936. illustrated with photos from the David O. Selznick movie. SOFTCOVER VERSION. very tight, very clean. virtually unread. 2 light creases in the cover. other than the creases, book is near mint plus. 49.50
Saalfield Big Little Book #1192, LITTLE MARY MIXUP and the Grocery Robberies. Adapted from the Famous Newspaper Comic Strip by R. M. Brinkerhoff. ©1940, United Feature Syndicate. 392 pages, interior is tight and clean. Cover creased in lower right. Loss of gloss to cover. Overall very good. Very SCARCE title!! 39.50
Saalfield Big Little Book #1314 - Jackie Cooper in PECK'S BAD BOY by Charles T. Clinton, 1936 - contains black and white photos from the movie. Soft bound, the spine is "out of square". Overall very tight and clean, near mint. 49.50
L10 Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES. photos from the United Artists Movie starring Frederic March, Charles Laughton and Cedric Hardwicke. 1935. hardbound. tight and clean. near mint. 49.50
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POP-UP BOOKS
TIM TYLER IN THE JUNGLE. by Lyman Young. 1933. copyrighted by King Features. Pleasure Books - Blue Ribbon Pop-Up book. hardbound with 3 full color pop-ups. The first has a black Panther leaping at a Gorilla - which is intact and works fine. The centerfold is a Charging Elephant which is intact and works fine. The last one has Tyler shooting a charging Gorilla - which appears complete but does not open properly. Spine wear. Interior is clean. overall very good. one of the harder titles to find in this series. scarce book. 225.00
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