In 1939 Robert L.
Seventy-five years later, the beloved classic is once again available in a hardcover faithful facsimile of the 1939 Rudolph, with original text and original Denver Gillen illustrations..
The rest is history.
Almost two and a half million copies of the little tale about a Reindeer with a shiny red nose were given away to all the children who visited Montgomery Ward stores that year.
May, a copywriter working at Chicago\'s Montgomery Ward & Co., wrote a holiday story at the request of his employer.
In 1939 Robert L