HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR BEANY

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of the sixth book in the Beany Malone series, detailing the social fallout after Beany's 17th birthday party - a remarkably sharp copy. The Beany Malone series ran through 14 books, and Beany was Lenora Mattingly Weber's most well-known character. The series experienced a resurgence in popularity when it was republished in 1999. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original green cloth binding. Original price-clipped color pictorial jacket, illustrated by Gertrude Herrick Howe. Red topstain. 244 pages. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown. Jacket with mild edgewear, small pen mark to spine; one tiny closed tear. Binding corners and spine ends with a hint of bumping. Clean and tight.