1936 THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE Hardcover Dust Jacket

This is a 1936 edition of Mother Goose published by Rand McNally & Co. It has a dust jacket in a paper backed clear wrapper for protection. Pieces of the dust jacket are missing at the top and bottom of the spine and at the top of the front. It is showing the paper backing of the wrapper, which could be removed to reveal the same artwork printed on the boards of the book. There are color illustrations and full page book plates throughout. It is identical in every way to the first edition. The binding and interior pages are structurally sound without any obvious signs of inscriptions, marginalization, or dog-eared pages. 

I gew up in the 70s and 80s and I had a copy of this book, I remember it looking the same with the checker board border on the cover. I can still remember snippets of some of the rhymes word for word. According to one story, Mother Goose was a woman named Elizabeth Goose. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1600s. Some people believe the rhymes she made up for her grandchildren survive as the Mother Goose tales we know today. However, no one has found any proof that she actually wrote the stories. There are  many who believe that Mother Goose was never a real person, but was simply a character who began to appear in French fairy tales and nursery rhymes in in the 1620s and 1630s. Whatever the origin of Mother Goose, nursery rhymes were important to me in learning language and communication skills.  Being a shy child who didn't talk much, they helped build confidence to prepare me for reading and writing as I got older.