These Happy Golden Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Harper & Row, 1953. Illustrated uniform edition edition, later printing.

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Book: Very Good
Our ref: RCB-5fbe82c463d8

What we checked, and where to see itRCB-5fbe82c463d8 · 8 photographs of this copy

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Text first published Harper & Brothers 1943; Garth Williams illustrated uniform edition 1953

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True first illustrated edition bears the Harper & Brothers imprint, not Harper & Row

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Harper & Row imprint was formed in 1962, so this imprint postdates the 1953 first

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Standard Book Number (06-026480-2) indicates a printing no earlier than c.1967

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Pictorial laminated boards; copyright page states copyrights of 1943 (text) and 1953 (pictures)

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Flaws, each one named

ink ownership signature 'Amy Scott', front endpaper

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small dark scuff/mark to upper rear board

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light wear/chipping at head of spine

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even toning to page block

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This copy

1953 Harper & Row Edition

What a true first shows: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1943 (first edition of the text); Garth Williams newly-illustrated uniform edition: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1953

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.