Halloween Party Book, Whitman Publishing Co., 1954

Historical/Biographical Note

Historical/Biographical Note

"Whitman Publishing is an American book publishing company which started as a subsidiary of the Western Printing & Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin.

In about 1915, Western began printing and binding a line of juvenile books for the Hamming-Whitman Publishing Company of Chicago. A few years later Hamming-Whitman went bankrupt, and Western took over the company, found success in selling the inventory of low-cost juvenile books, and formed the Whitman Publishing Company.

From the early 1900s to the mid-1980s, Whitman was a popular children's book publisher. For decades it was a subsidiary of Western Publishing Company. Whitman published the Big Little Books and Better Little Books. The early Big Little Books had print runs of 250,000 to 350,000 for each title, with no reprints.

They also published illustrated card games including War, Hearts, Fish, Old Maid, and Crazy Eights."

Sources

Whitman Publishing. (2026, March 9). In Wikipedia.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman_Publishing.