Item #20294 Roland the Minstrel Pig. William Steig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
Roland the Minstrel Pig.
/WS, illustrator.

Roland the Minstrel Pig.

New York: "Published by Windmill Books, Inc/Distributed by Harper & Row" (1968), price clipped, so cannot be identified as a first, but clearly early: no ISBN, code 0468, and 1969 inscription; blue-green cloth, ochre endpapers, in jacket with Roland onstage on front and a little portrait on a white background on back, rear flap mentions this is his "first book for children"; 9.25x12.25"; 32 pp. Picture Book Hardback.

Steig's first book for children appeals directly to them with a grand plot. Roland ventures out from his safe and loving community of animals with his lute and finds loneliness, fear, and eventual happiness playing for the King.

CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good jacket; no marks, tight, clean, tiniest of rubs through colour to tips, 1969 Christmas gift inscription; in bright, clean clipped jacket with minimal flaws for such a large book: 1/16" chips to corners, slightly larger ones to spine ends, 1/2" closed tear on back. Item #20294

Price: $80.00

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