Skip to main content

Fine Editions Ltd

Fine Editions Ltd
Item #BB1990 [Children's Literature] Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig. Carson McCULLERS, Rolf Gérard, illustrates.
[Children's Literature] Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig
[Children's Literature] Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig
[Children's Literature] Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig

[Children's Literature] Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this charming collection of verse for young readers. Tall, slim 8vo: 31,[1]pp, illustrated by the German artist Rolf Gérard. Publisher's orange cloth, front cover stamped in lime green with dancing piglets vignette, spine lettered in lime green, lime green end papers, title page in orange, lime green, and black with cover vignette repeated, Illustrated dust jacket priced $2.75. A lovely copy of this beautiful production, about Fine (lightest of edge wear, several nicks to head and tail of jacket's spine panel). Fine- / Fine-. Item #BB1990

Written three years before her death, by which point McCullers had suffered multiple strokes and lived for years paralyzed on her left side. Many of the poems have an existential bent, dwelling in a lighthearted way with such weighty issues as the nature of nothingness and why the world exists. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Price: $365.00

See all items in MODERN FIRSTS