WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY

BIG LITTLE BOOKS® and BETTER LITTLE BOOKS®

  1932-1949

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       BOOK                   TITLE                                                                                                                                       VALUES

     NUMBER                                                                                                                                                      GOOD       VG        FINE

 

      GW147    1114      UNCLE DON'S STRANGE ADVENTURES                                                                      8.75     17.50     35.00

Big Little Book®;  1936.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  300 pages.  Author: Uncle Don Carney.  Artist: Unknown.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book was written and drawn specially for the BLB format.  Uncle Don began on radio on WMCA, New York, in December 1925.

 

      GW15       722      UNCLE RAY'S STORY OF THE U.S.                                                                              8.75     17.50     35.00

Big Little Book®;  1934.  Hard cover with paper spine.  Earliest size, 4 1/8 x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  300 pages;  125 pictures.  Author: Ramon Coffman.  Artist: Unknown.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book was written and drawn specially for the BLB format.

 

      SW161    1461      UNCLE SAM'S SKY DEFENDERS                                               8.75      17.50      35.00

Better Little Book®;  1942.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages;  Flip-it feature (Airplane disburses soldiers on a battlefield).  Author: Peter A. Wyckoff.  Artist: Erwin L. Hess.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE:  This book was written and drawn specially for the BLB format.

 

      SW236    1405      UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES  (ALL PICTURES COMICS)                                12.50     25.00     50.00

Better  Little Book®;  1946.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  352 pages.  Author: Howard Garis.  Artist: Unknown.

 

      SW6a      1411      UNION PACIFIC (starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck)                        12.50     25.00     50.00

Better Little Book®;  1939.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  240 pages.  Author: Eleanor Packer—adapted from film.  COLLECTOR"S NOTE: This book contains 115 motion picture stills from the Paramount Picture directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

 

      SW6b      1411      UNION PACIFIC                                                                                                            17.50     35.00     70.00

Better Little Book®;  Variation;  1939.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: Some books with this title have a note pasted inside the front cover. The note promotes the movie and the railroad, and it is signed by the President of the Union Pacific Railroad. Such BLBs were distributed free for promotional purposes.  Finding a book with the note attached inside is RARE.

 

      SW199    1455      VIC SANDS OF THE U.S. FLYING FORTRESS BOMBER SQUADRON                        12.50     25.00     50.00

Better Little Book®;  1944.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  352 pages.  Author: Roy J. Snell.  Artist: Neil Slocum.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: The cover title is different than the title on the title page (Vic Sands of the Flying Fortress Bombing Squadron). 

 

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      GW233    1455      WASH TUBBS AND CAPTAIN EASY HUNTING FOR WHALES                                  12.50     25.00     50.00

Big Little Book®;  1938.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages.  Author/Artist: Roy Crane.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE:  Reprinted from the daily strip beginning February 28, 1933 and ending June 21, 1933.

 

      GW31a      751      WASH TUBBS IN PANDEMONIA                                                                                 10.00     20.00     40.00

Big Little Book®;  1934.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  320 pages.  Author/Artist: Roy Crane.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE:  Several copies of this BLB have been found with upside-down covers.

 

      GW31b      751      WASH TUBBS IN PANDEMONIA                                                                                 75.00   150.00   300.00

Big little Book®; Variation;  1934.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This variation is identified by a soft cover, otherwise it is identical to GW31a.  This is a RARE book.                                                             

      GW246    1471      WELLS FARGO (starring Bob Burns and Joel McCrea)                                      12.50     25.00     50.00

Big Little Book®;  1938.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2"; 240 pages. Author: Eleanor Packer—adapted from film. COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book contains 76 motion picture stills from the Paramount film.

 

      GW102    1164      WEST POINT OF THE AIR (starring Robert Young and Wallace Beery)               8.75     17.50     35.00

Big Little Book®;  1935.  Hard cover.  Movie size 4 5/8" x 5 1/4" x 1"; 160 pages.  Author: Eleanor Packer—adapted from John Monk Saunders' story and the film.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book contains 70 motion picture scenes from the MGM film.

 

      GW236    1458      WIMPY THE HAMBURGER EATER                                                                              15.00     30.00     60.00

Big Little Book®;  1938.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages.  Author/Artist: Elzie Crisler Segar.

 

      SW142    1433      WINDY WAYNE AND HIS FLYING WING                                                                        8.75     17.50     35.00

Better Little Book®;  1942.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages;  Left-handed flip-it feature (Flying Wing does stunts).  Author: Russell R. Winterbotham.  Artist: Erwin L. Darwin (pseudonym for Erwin L. Hess).

 

      SW48      1407      WINGS OF THE U.S.A.                                                                                                   8.75     17.50     35.00

Better Little Book®;  1940.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages.  Author: Peter A. Wyckoff.  Artist: Thomas Hickey. COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book was written and drawn specially for the BLB format.

 

      GW54        779      The WORLD WAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS (WWI)                                                            10.00     20.00     40.00

Big Little Book®;  1934.  Hard cover.  Movie size 4 5/8" x 5 1/4" x 1".  160 pages.  Author: Otto Kurth.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book contains 190 photographs arranged and edited by Otto Kurth.  Inspired by Laurence Stallings' collection of WWI photographs titled The First World War.

 

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      SW94      1465      ZIP SAUNDERS, KING OF THE SPEEDWAY                                                                  8.75     17.50     35.00

Better Little Book®;  1939.  Hard cover.  Standard size 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2";  432 pages.  Author: Rex Loomis.  Artist: Robert R. Weisman.  COLLECTOR'S NOTE: This book was written and drawn specially for the BLB format.