Small chips missing. Pages toned. Staples with some rust. Pencil marks on the back cover, clearly a child's. Probably a bored child in a restaurant booth.


These are not rare: they are available with the bottom blue band stamped with the logotype of some company or another eager to ingratiate themselves with the parents of the children dragged to the mall for holiday shopping. We've seen Sears, Polly Parrot Shoes, Red Riding Shoes, Buster Brown Shoes.