First Edition Beginner Books
Beginner Books First Edition Identification
Dust Jacket Publishing Sequence
1967 Beginner Books Dust Jacket Back 'R'
Beginner Book Dust Jacket Back 'R', which can be found on the first editions of five Beginner Books B-45, B-46, and B-47 published in 1967, along with B-49 and B-50 published in 1968:
- B-45 Babar Loses His Crown (1967)
- B-46 The Bear Scouts (1967)
- B-47 The Digging-est Dog (1967)
- B-48 The Travels of Doctor Dolittle (1967)
- B-49 Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates (1968)
- B-50 Off To The Races (1968)
- B-51 The Best Nest (1968); P.D. Eastman, author / illustrator.
- B-52 Bears Vacation (1968); Stan & Jan Berenstain, author / illustrator.
- B-53 Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968); B. Tobey, illustrator; Ian Fleming, author.
Click on the DJ image - and then click again - for the high-resolution enlargement.
1967 Beginner Books Dust Jacket Back 'R'
DJ for First Edition B-45 to B-50
Beginner Book Dust Jacket Back 'R' is an advertisement for Beginner Books.
- It is important to note the last paragraph begins "Among recent Beginner Book titles are THE BEAR SCOUTS [...]".
- 1968 Beginner Book Dust Jacket Back 'S' has the same advertisement, however the last paragraph begins "Among recent Beginner Book titles are MY BOOK ABOUT ME [...]".
While Beginner Books DJ Back 'R' is found on the first editions of the above books, it was also used by Random House during most of 1967 for the publication of the reprints of the earlier Beginner Books. It is quite common to find the earlier Beginner Books with this 1967 DJ configuration.
1967 The Bear Scouts - Fourth Berenstain Bears Book!
Beginner Book B-46 The Bear Scouts (1967) is the fourth book in the tremendously successful Berenstain Bears franchise, following the 1962 publication of B-28 The Big Honey Hunt (1962). There are over 300 books in the franchise, with an estimated 300 million copies sold worldwide since 1962!
The first edition B-46 The Bear Scouts is relatively underappreciated in the market relative to its impact and importance in American children's book history.
Second Book In Berenstain Bears Franchise
1967 Beginner Books B-46 The Bear Scouts
See Beginner Books Dust Jacket Backs to see the publishing sequence of dust jackets from 1957-to-1967. This is the primary resource to identify the year of publication if you own a later edition Beginner Book.
See Beginner Book Covers for first edition identification of the first 50 Beginner Books.
This information is from the First Edition Identification Guide: Beginner Books (2024, Flying Moose Books), by Stan Zielinski.
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