\nMost Valuable Books – 1930’s<\/span><\/p>\n
As one might expect, since the picturebook industry was in its formative years, the collectible books from the 1930’s are some of the most valuable. <\/span>The first three Seuss children’s books are at the top of the list. <\/span>Seventeen of the books are on the ‘over $1,000’ list.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Little Engine That Could<\/span><\/em> is one of the most valuable books from the 1930’s, and is a significantly important book in the context of the history of collectible, illustrated picturebooks. Published in 1930, illustrated by Lois Lenski, The Little Engine That Could<\/em> is one of the top selling children’s books of all time, and is still in print today, robustly, over seventy-five years after it was first published!<\/span><\/p>\n
The author for the story was originally credited to Watty Piper, but that was simply a house name used by Platt & Munk during the early twentieth century, and, somewhat amazingly, the real author for the story is still contended today<\/a>[1]<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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