Hardcover
1952 · New York
by O'Reilly, John; Walt Kelly
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. Walt Kelly. 63pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth over boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a black ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Light and dark brown pictorial endpapers. Very good plus, with light rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers. In a very attractive dust jacket, in very good condition. The jacket's spine is barely perceptibly faded, the edges are a little chipped, and there is a 1" closed tear along the bottom edge. There are thin stains along the edges (more visible on the verso). Pictures by Walt Kelly, whose career in animation (truncated)