Mickey Mouse's Friends Wait for the County Fair

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition. Stiff Wraps. Very Good Minus. 4to. 24 by 21.5 cm. 22 pp., plus content on both inside wrap covers. 16 color illustrations, including front and rear cover. Three of the illustrations are full page, and one or two others are nearly so. Besides Mickey and Minnie, other quintessential and beloved Disney characters make appearances, including Donald Duck, Pluto and Goof. Surprisingly scarce, with no institutional copies found on OCLC First Search, and none on ABE on the date we are writing this description. Condition: pages are heavily toned, but this is a function of the cheap pulp paper used by Whitman and surely a feature of any surviving copies. There are a few minor closed tears, a tiny corner chip to a few pages, and the like -- all this a consequence of the brittle paper, and we believe on the light side for this book. Stiff wraps (heavy-ish card) have a few flattened crease marks, and rear cover has a small corner chip, not disconcerting, in our view.