Item #20124 The Whingdingdilly. Bill Peet.
/BP, illustrator.

The Whingdingdilly.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1970), 2nd printing of the true US first; green cloth binding with dark green endpapers, jacket with leery Whingdingdilly walking through a shrubby forest; 4to; 60 pp. Picture Book hardback.

Scamp, Orvie's dog, wanted a more glamorous life so a magician transformed him into a bizarre mixture of zebra, elephant, camel, giraffe, elk, and rhino, "one whopping big surprise". All this makes a perfect vehicle for Peet's zany pictures.

CONDITION: Very Good in Very Good jacket; 6 year old has written her name on the title page twice, otherwise all very nice and no other marks, very clean, straight, extrems lightly bumped; in clean, bright, clipped jacket with rubbed creases, wear to spine ends to 1/4", tears along flap fold to 1" Item #20124

Price: $48.00

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