by Eleanor Gates

New York: Grosset & Dunlap: A Thrushwood Book, (1940).

Vintage edition with newly illustrated dust jacket and frontispiece that depicts a scene distinctly from the late 1930s time period, and features a baby-cheeked, button-nosed, pouty-lipped blonde girl.  While the girl in the illustration is not Shirley Temple, the portrayed character obviously draws influence from the Shirley Temple film of 1936.

Eleanor Gates worked initially as newspaper journalist and playwright, as well as writing novels. Two of the author's well-received novels preceded POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL.

At the beginning of 1915, Gates founded the Liberty Feature Film Company, which was the only film company to be owned and managed by women. In the year that it existed the company created several two reel films. The first film, produced in 1917, was The Poor Little Rich Girl, which starred Mary Pickford. Shirley Temple starred in the 1936 remake of the same name. The film story, created to cash in on the talents of the eight-year-old Temple and the rights to the "changing places" story, was obtained for $40,000 to Gates and an additional $20,000 to Mary Pickford's company which had made the 1917 film. The new film had made two million dollars by the end of 1939.

Fine, fresh hardcover in grey tweed boards with black titles and decorations to the spine; in a very good, shelf-edge worn dust jacket with very short edge tears and rubbing at the front flap fold; original price, 1.95, still intact to the front inner flap.

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