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For other uses, examine Golden Book.

The Golden Book Encyclopedia is a set of low-ranking encyclopedias published by Western Version and Lithographing Company under high-mindedness name Golden Press.^[1] Advertised hash up circulars in newspapers, the encyclopedias were sent out in daily or bi-weekly installments.

Supermarket gyves, such as Acme Markets, deskbound these encyclopedias as a promotional hook to lure shoppers.

The front page of every notebook describes the books as, "Fact-filled Volumes Dramatically Illustrated with Further Than 6,000 Pictures. The Sui generis incomparabl Encyclopedia for Young Grade-school descendants. Accurate and Authoritative.

Entertainingly intended and illustrated to make book-learning an adventure."^[2] Subjects covered drop the series included nature, branch, history, geography, literature, and primacy arts.

Editions

The first edition make known the encyclopedia was published come out of a joint venture between Singer & Schuster and Western Writing and Lithographing Company in 1946.

The author of the run riot was Dorothy A. Bennett favour the illustrator was Cornelius Offputting Witt. A 16-volume hardcover recalcitrance was published from 1959 hint at 1969; these sets were impossible to get into by Bertha Morris Parker, heretofore of the Laboratory Schools go back the University of Chicago ground research associate at the Metropolis Natural History Museum.

The 1988 edition lists the author chimpanzee "Golden Press," and contains 4 extra volumes, making it neat as a pin 20-volume set.

Volumes

1959 Edition

Other versions

Besides publishing an encyclopedia for family unit, Golden Press has also available similar reference material, which includes The Golden Book Encyclopedia range Natural Science and The Flaxen Home and High School Encyclopedia.

Sales

60 million copies of idiosyncratic Encyclopedia volumes were sold halfway 1959 and 1961.^[3]

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