Pagoo by Holling, Holling Clancy - 1957

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Later Printing. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1985. Soft Cover. (N483) .

"Little Pagurus--"Pagoo" for short--came from an egg the size of a pencil dot. He drifted on the surface of the sea like a tiny fleck of foam, yet he would become a two-fisted Hermit Crab--if luck was with him. Under water, Pagoo's glassy body was almost invisible. His large eyes looked like eyes, but the rest of him was a fuzzy blur because as yet he had no claws or legs. Pagoo found bits of floating food small enouth to eat, and he grew. He molted by kicking off his plastic armor, as do his crustacean relatives such as Shrimps and Lobsters. Each molting found him a little larger, with a few more improvements added. Looking more like a Hermit Crab, at last he could swim no longer. He settled to the bottom of a tide pool near shore, and walked with legs. But now his armor covered only part of him. Thus Instinct set Pagoo to hunting shelter in crowded Tide-Pool Town. He could not know that his odd body was shaped to fit a particular home built by a creature he had never met." Illustrated by Mr. and… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1957. Illustrated by the author and Lucille Webster Holling. Pp. 88(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow, edges a trifle discoloured and rubbed, corners lightly worn; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip worn, with large piece torn from top of back panel, and several smaller chips and tears; upper hinge tender, bookseller's sticker at foot of lower pastedown, a little light foxing and offsetting; Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1957. First edition. *Pagoois a hermit crab. Holling Clancy Holling (1900-1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for his book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942.

First edition. Thin 4to. 17 full-page color plates, numerous b/w illustrations, color endpapers and dust jacket design by Lucille Webster Holling. Dust jacket (clipped; few chips and nicks). Very good. 86 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Houghton Mifflin, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good +. FIRST EDITION-Clean, tight and bright green cloth boards with bright yellow lettering. Discrete, neatly written inscription top corner of title page; light chipping to top edge of jacket, now protected in a new archival grade Mylar sleeve. well preserved copy, GIFT QUALITY/COLLECTIBLE COPY!TRACKING INCLUDED ON ALL DOMESTIC AND PARTICIPATING INT'L DESTINATIONS. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.