Pigs is Pigs

Hodder and Stoughton, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Butler, Ellis Parker. List of illustrations. The text is illustrated with five black-and-white illustrations by Will Crawford. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip and a rectangular cameo pasted to the front, and, within that cameo an illustration and orange and black coloured titles. The story of Mike Flannery who wishes to charge the higher rate (livestock rate) rather than domestic pet rate (lower rate) for the delivery of two guinea pigs. The customer refuses delivery, and, Mike has to feed the guinea pigs until they can be returned to whence they came from. By the time he can do that, the guinea pigs have reproduced exponentially, and, by the time he returns all of the original and their descendants of the guinea pigs he resolves to charge the lower rate in future. Showing age and use please see photograph. Rubbing, fraying and bumping of the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Heavy rubbing to the book edges and panels and there are various rubs and marks to the panels. Sunning of the backstrip. Tanning and foxing of the textblock edges with age toning and quite noticeable foxing of the pages. The book has been over opened in various places and the underlying webbing is visible. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). [8], 2 - 47, [7 -of which six are further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Butler, Ellis Parker. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Inventory No: 0129039. .