The copyright page lists four printings and then 'First printing, this edition, July 1943 ' twenty books listed on the back cover. The eighth Little Golden Book, first published in September 1942, and one of the bestselling picture books of all time. The story of a curious puppy, who digs holes under fences and who has to go to bed without any strawberry shortcake. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX.
Good+ blue quarter-cloth hardcover with rubbing to the tips, an abrasion and a smear of ink (each about quarter-sized) to the back cover, child's name and '1944' penciled to the ownership space, small bookstore label to inside front cover, and one short closed tear to one page the back staple has separated from the paste down interior is otherwise clean and bright lacking dj.
Second edition, first printing, July 1943.
