First printing, with the "A" in the gutter. Tipped in perforated card stock has been separated as designed and no longer present. (it was an order form for the Golden Book of America)/ Pages are lightly toned. Wear at the corners. Previous owner's name. Rin-Tin-Tin competed with Lassie for the children's audience after dinner and before bed in the sixties. Rinty was a German Shepherd Dog who saved his boy Rusty (who's dad was stationed at Fort Apache in the foothills of the Rockies during the 1880's). When Black, the outlaw, tried to escape from Fort Apache, he thought his chances were pretty good. He didn't know about the trick that Rusty had taught his dog, Rin Tin Tin. Charles Spain Verral was a writer and illustrator, he wrote Street Smith's Bill Barnes pulp series novels, among others. Among the most widely read of his books are the Brains Benton Mysteries, a six-book series published from 1959 to 1961. He also published many other children's works, including Rin Tin Tin, and Popeye.