Kaufman, lectured at the Disney Family Museum on these Big Little Books. And sold to KM’s mom as a child for 10 cents! The top price paid for KM’s book is $5,000! All that money for pages printed on newsprint. For books in good condition, both collectors bid. In this case we’re dealing with a cross collectible, which means two types of collectors offer money on such a book: Disney collectors and kid’s books collectors. We find this especially true in children’s book, and more especially true in comic books with illustrations often crayon colored-in! Value is directly keyed to condition in books in general. Other nomenclature specifies no fading and sharp printing and colors. Book dealers speak in terms like VF which means very fine, or N/M, a determinate which tells us no marks. Plus condition is a high value determinant. The cartoonist for this book, Floyd Gottfredson, is the important thing to remember, especially kid’s books. Do not remove from the book case.” A similar warning resides inside the cover and on the front page. If KM’s book was printed after the lawsuit, it will bear the stamp along the right edge, “Property of Walk Disney Enterprises. One such copy shows the infamous Mickey Mouse meeting the Air Pirates, cover art copied from KM’s Little Big Book. In the day printers and publishing companies ‘pirated’ Big Little Books because of their popularity. Author Larry Jacobs, in 1996, wrote The Big Little Books: A Collector’s Reference and Value Guide. Yes, people collect these –and even grown men write about them. A tiny little newsprint book, in a somewhat worn condition: Mickey Mouse: The Mail Pilot, Big Little Books #731 (Disney file copy/Whitman circa 1937).
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