First Printing of the First Edition

"The Gingerbread Man". An old, old story retold and illustrated by Violet Moore Higgins, published by Albert Whitman, "Just-Right-Books", Chicago, copyright 1926 without printing stated.

Point of first printing: only the first printing copies have copyright without printing information. All later printed copies of this book have the printing stated on the copyright page.

"...Once upon a time there lived a old women and a little old man in a little old house in the country. They had no little boys or little girls in their little old house so they were often lonely. Then one day when the little old woman was making gingerbread, suddenly, quick as a wink, an idea popped into her head."I will make a little gingerbread man for us," she said, so she rolled out the dough and cut a little ginger-bread man. Then she gave him two fat raisins for eyes and a strip of candied orange peel for a mouth, and a round ball of dough for a nose, and..."

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Embossed hard boards with past-down illustration (a little wear ; 6.1/4" x 9"; illustrated endpapers; unpaginated (63 pages printed on high quality thick glossy paper); ALL pages are illustrated and decorated, very little wear; very good binding and condition. [kqjb]