Big Little Book

    (Whitman, 1932-1949)

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  • TPB 12
    #12
    ca. 1942 Soft Cover. Fast-Action Story
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    No copies available
  • HC 715
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harry Houdini
    240 pages; Lowery GW8; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • TPB 715-2
    American Oil Co. premium on back cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harry Houdini
    192 pages; Glued binding; Lowery GWp2.1.9b; No number on spine; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 716-2
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray
    300 pages; A SCARCE book; Identified by number of pages and 7-title ad at the back of the book; Lowery GW9b; Paper spine; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 723
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints daily strip 3/2-5/16/1933; Lowery GW16; No Issue number on spine; Paper spine; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 724
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Leon Morgan  ·  A: Hal Arbor
    300 pages; Different size: 4 1/4“x 4 1/2”x 1 1/2; Lowery GW18; Written and drawn specially for the Whitman BLB format; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 726
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Web Smith  ·  A: Floyd Gottfredson
    Reprints daily strip 11/12/1932- 2/10/1933; Lowery GW20; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 734
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Sidney Smith  ·  A: Sidney Smith
    Reprints Sunday pages 2/5-5/28/1933; First Chester Gump BLB; Illustration on page 307 is printed upside-down; Lowery GW22a; Only 7 titles listed in the ad in the back pages; Paper spine; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 742
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints first daily series 1932-33 strips about 45 through about 1300; First Buck Rogers BLB; Lowery GW23a; Paper spine; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • TPB 745-2
    Red background on front cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Berndt Berndt  ·  A: Walter Berndt
    Adapted from BLB #745 Smitty, Golden Gloves (Lowery GW25); Glued binding; Lowery GWp2.1/17; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 746
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Juanita Bennett
    307 original illustrations plus 1 reprinted as frontispiece; First Tarzan BLB; Lowery GW24; Unauthorized adaptation from the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the daily strip.; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 748
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Harold Gray  ·  A: Harold Gray
    Reprints daily strip 5/29-9/25/1933. ca. 1933; Identified by 8-title ad at the back of book; Lowery GW28a
    No copies available
  • HC 749
    Green cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints daily strip 5/22-8/2/1933; 320 pages; Lowery GW29a; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 750
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Floyd Gottfredson  ·  A: Floyd Gottfredson
    Reprints daily strip 5/10-11/11/1932; Identified by an 8-title ad at the back of the book; Lowery GWp30a; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 751
    Several copies of this BLB have been found with upside-down covers
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Roy Crane  ·  A: Roy Crane
    320 pages; Lowery GW31a; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 751/A
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Irwin L. Hess
    432 pages; Better Little Book©; Lowery SW99; ca. 1940
    No copies available
  • HC 753
    Cover: $0.15
    Adapted for the movie by Kenneth Hallam from the story “Patrol” by Phillip MacDonald; Contains 74 motion picture stills from the RKO picture; Lowery GW32; Movie size: 4 5/8”x 5 1/4”x 1”; Movie size: 4 5/8″ x 5 1/4″ x 1″; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • TPB 754
    Cocomalt premium on back cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gene Byrnes  ·  A: Gene Byrnes
    A RARE book; Lowery GW33b; ca. 1933
    No copies available
  • HC 755
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Ted McCall  ·  A: Harry Hall
    320 pages; Lowery GW34; Reprint of Canadian daily strip created in 1933; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 758
    Cover: $0.10
    W: G.P. Alkire  ·  A: Hal Arbo
    384 pages; Lowery GW37a; Written and drawn specially for the BLB format; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 761
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Percy Crosby  ·  A: Percy Crosby
    320 pages; Lowery GW40; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 766
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Sidney Smith  ·  A: Sidney Smith
    Reprints the Sunday pages 7/23-11/23/1933; Lowery GW44a; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 778
    No copies available
  • HC 1100
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Raymond Moore  ·  A: Lee Falk
    Reprints 1st daily strip 2/17-11/7/1936; 1st Phantom BLB, ca. 1938; Lowery GW136
    No copies available
  • HC 1102
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Rex Mason, Hugh Hutton
    Reprints 2nd daily storyline of 60 panels; 240 illustrations; 4 per panel; Adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs; Lowery GW137; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1103/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zane Grey, Romer Gray  ·  A: Allen Dean
    1st King of the Royal Mounted BLB; Based on the comic strip; Better Little Book®; Lowery GW138; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1105
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints daily strip10/2-12/5/1933; Lowery GW59; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 1110
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    1934
    No copies available
  • HC 1112
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank King  ·  A: Frank King
    1st Skeezix BLB; Lowery GW65; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 1125
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Norman Marsh  ·  A: Norman Marsh
    432 pages; Lowery GW155; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1127-2
    2nd printing identified by complete title on cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Dick Calkins  ·  A: Russell Keaton
    1st Skyroads BLB; Lowery GW156b; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1135
    Another printing is softcover with no number on spine and with Cocomalt premium on back cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Leon Morgan  ·  A: Hal Arbo
    In Lowery’s book but not on the BLB website; Lowery GW18; Such BLB is assumed to be GWp18.2; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1136
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Morton H. Cowen  ·  A: Hal Arbo
    432 pages; Lowery GW161; Written and drawn specially for the BLB format; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1141
    Cover: $0.15
    A: MGM Pictures
    160 pages; Lowery GW81; Movie size: 4 5/8”x 5 1/4”x 1”; Soft spine; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 1142
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Charlie Schmidt  ·  A: Eddie Sullivan
    1st Radio Patrol BLB; Lowery GW82; Originally titled “Pinkerton, Jr.”; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1143
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 1st daily series, 1931-32; Lowery GW83a; ca. 1934
    No copies available
  • HC 1144
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Robert Sanders (Max Trell)  ·  A: Charles Flanders
    Reprints daily strip, 3/30-7/25/1936; 1st Secret Agent X-9 BLB; Lowery GW166; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1148
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Conrad Vane
    432 pages; Lowery GW168; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1166
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • TPB 1166
    ca. 1935 Soft Cover. Premium-no ads. 3-color. rare
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    No copies available
  • HC 1167
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Lee Falk  ·  A: Phil Davis
    1st Mandrake BLB; Lowery GW104; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1168
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Dick Blair  ·  A: Milt Youngren
    Lowery GW105; Written and drawn specially for the Whitman BLB format; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1169
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 1933’s 1st daily series strips 1393-1514; Lowery GW106; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1171
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1172
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Stanley Link  ·  A: Stanley Link
    Lowery GW178; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1173
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Charlie Schmidt  ·  A: Eddie Sullivan
    Lowery GW179; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1175
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Glen Cravath  ·  A: Glen Cravath
    Lowery GW112; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1178
    Copies have been found with no number and blank BLB cover logo
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 2nd daily series from 1934 strips 1-90; Lowery GW115; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1181
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Hal Arbor
    Book is an oddity because it contains 2 complete stories adapted from radio scripts; Lowery GW122; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1185
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints daily strip 5/26-8/4/1935; Lowery GW122; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1190
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1191
    Cover: $0.10
    W: William Engle  ·  A: Henry Vallely
    ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1197
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 2nd daily series 1934-1935 strips 241- 339; Lowery GW134; ca. 1936
    No copies available
  • HC 1405
    W: Peter A. Wyckoff  ·  A: Ted Horn
    432 pages; ca. 1935
    No copies available
  • HC 1407
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Reprints Sunday pages 4/12-11/11/1936 strips 120-145; Lowery GW190; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1407/A
    Cover: $0.10
    Adapted from last Lone Ranger pulp of 11/1937; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW4; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1409/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 3rd daily series strips 231-244 of 1938; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW5; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1410-2
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Rex Maxon
    Reprints the daily strip; 218 illustrations; Lowery GW193b; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1411
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Irene Ray (pseudonym for Margaret Sutton)  ·  A: Charles Meuller
    300 pages; Lowery GW194; Written and drawn specially for the BLB format; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1411/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Eleanor Parker  ·  A: Paramount Pictures
    Better Little Book®; Contains 115 movie stills; Lowery SW6a; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1412/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Helen Berke  ·  A: Chester Gould
    Reprints daily strip 6/14-9/18/1940; Better Little Book®; Identified by 3-page ad which begins with Captain Midnight and Sheik Jomak Khan and ends with Mandrake the Magician; Lowery SW244a; ca. 1946
    No copies available
  • HC 1414/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Fred Harman  ·  A: Fred Harmon
    Reprints daily strip, 1944-45; Better Little Book®; Identified by 3-page ad which begins with Captain Midnight and Sheik Jomak Khan and ends with Mandrake the Magician; Lowery SW246a; ca. 1946
    No copies available
  • HC 1415
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chic Young  ·  A: Chic Young
    Reprints1934 daily newspaper strip; 1st Blondie BLB; Lowery GW198; ca. 1947
    No copies available
  • HC 1419/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank King  ·  A: Frank King
    All Pictures Comics book with 2 flip-it features; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW129; ca. 1941
    No copies available
  • HC 1420
    Cover: $0.10
    Lowery SW59; Written specially for Whitman; ca. 1939, ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1420/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Helen Berke  ·  A: Milton Caniff
    Reprints daily strip 6/13-12/23/1944; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW252; ca. 1946
    No copies available
  • HC 1423
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Lowery SW61; ca. 1940
    No copies available
  • HC 1424
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Rex Beach  ·  A: William Mark Young
    432 pages; Lowery GW205; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1424/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1947
    No copies available
  • HC 1425/A-2
    Cover: $0.10
    Better Little Book®; Lowery SW241b; Written and drawn specially for the Whitman BLB format; ca. 1947
    No copies available
  • HC 1428
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Oren Arnold  ·  A: Herbert Anderson
    432 pages; Lowery GW209; ca. 1937
    No copies available
  • HC 1430
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Rex Loomis  ·  A: Irwin Meyers
    432 pages; Lowery GW211; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1430/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Erwin L. Hess  ·  A: Maxwell Grant (Walter Gibson)
    1st Shadow BLB; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW67; Written and drawn specially for Whitman BLB format; ca. 1940
    No copies available
  • HC 1432/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Don Moore  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Reprints Sunday strips 146-188 from10/1/1936-8/8/1937; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW36; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1435/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Leon Schlesinger Productions  ·  A: Leon Schlesinger Productions
    1st Bugs Bunny BLB; All Pictures Comics book; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW193; ca. 1944
    No copies available
  • HC 1436
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Les Daniels, Jr.  ·  A: Henry Vallely
    1st Jack Armstrong BLB; Lowery GW216; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1436/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Chester Gould  ·  A: Helen Berke
    Reprints daily strip January-March 1944, ca. 1947; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW264
    No copies available
  • HC 1438/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord DuBois  ·  A: Erwin L. Hess
    Better Little Book®; Lowery SW73; Written and drawn specially for the Whitman BLB format; ca. 1940
    No copies available
  • HC 1443
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Fred Harman  ·  A: Fred Harman
    Lowery SW271; ca. 1948
    No copies available
  • HC 1443/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • HC 1446
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Milton Caniff  ·  A: Milton Caniff
    Reprints daily strip 1/25-5/18/1935; Lowery SW16; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1446/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Erwin L. Hess  ·  A: Russell R. Winterbotham
    Big Little Book®; Flip-it feature; HARD-TO-GET book; Lowery SW151; Written and drawn for whitman BLB format; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • HC 1447
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1948
    No copies available
  • HC 1447/A
    Cover A by Robert R. Weisman
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Gaylord DuBois  ·  A: Robert R. Weisman
    432 pages; Big Little Book®; Lowery GW225; Written and drawn specially for the BLB format; ca. 1942
    No copies available
  • HC 1450
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Henry Vallely
    Lowery SW83; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1451
    This printing is identified by an overprinted logo on cover
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Isaac McAnally  ·  A: Henry Vallely
    1st Gang Busters BLB; Lowery GW229; No copies of this book have been found with the standard BLB logo on it; This is a transition book, published between Big Little Books® and Better Little Books®; Written and drawn specially for the BLB format; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1454/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Fred Harman
    288 pages; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW282; ca. 1948
    No copies available
  • HC 1459
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Frank Miller  ·  A: Frank Miller
    232 pages; Lowery GW237; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1460
    ca. 1938, 225 pages
    No copies available
  • HC 1461
    W: Gaylord Du Bois  ·  A: Al Lewin, Ken Ernst
    432 pages; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1468
    Cover: $0.10
    W: William Ritt  ·  A: Clarence Gray
    300 pages; Lowery GW251; ca. 1938
    No copies available
  • HC 1469
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1943
    No copies available
  • HC 1471/A
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Erwin L. Hess
    432 pages; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW99; ca. 1940
    No copies available
  • HC 1474
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Lee Falk  ·  A: Raymond Moore
    Reprints 3rd daily strip 4/12-9/18/1937; Lowery SW22; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1479
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1945
    No copies available
  • HC 1479/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Lyman Young  ·  A: Lyman Young
    432 pages; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW26; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1484
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 1941
    No copies available
  • HC 1485/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Victor Appleton (pseudonym)  ·  A: James Gray
    Better Little Book®; Lowery SW31; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1486/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Zane Grey, Romer Gray  ·  A: Allen Dean
    Better Little Book®; Lowery SW32; ca. 1939
    No copies available
  • HC 1490/A
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Phil Nowlan  ·  A: Dick Calkins
    Reprints 1939-40 strips of the 4th daily series; 432 pages; All Pictures Comics book; Better Little Book®; Lowery SW180; ca. 1943
    No copies available
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