See pictures for specific flaws for each book. Books are tight, clean, flat, square, with bumped corners, heads and tails. Pages are marginally toned. Some have an owner's name. Jackets have chips, tears, folds, scuffs and fold overs.

Best in Books was a monthly hardcover magazine series, launched after WWII to serve the baby boomers. Kids got a book a month, boxed. Jackets were custom painted for each book and depict the contents. Boards are vinyl spine ribbons on contrastic vinyl boards stamped with illustrations, also depicting the contents of the book. Front and back boards always had different designs.

They shared the same pictorial endpapers, with the contents block on the FFEP altered with the actual contents, which was repeated on the flaps of the jacket.

Each volume contained a mix of classics, non-fiction, and also new stories. Classics might include adaptations of familiar tales like Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver’s Travels; new stories were written about familiar folk and fairy tales, or retellings of mythology such as Pandora or Pegasus; biographical stories about famous figures such as Abraham Lincoln or Napoleon were included to inspire an interest in history; and each volume contained an informational piece on a different country accompanied by photographs.