Mattie: The Story of a Hedgehog. Illustrated by Norman Adams.
first edition
1977 · New York
by Griffiths, G. D.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1977). First U.S. Printing, Stated. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 91 pp. Near-Fine, with slight edgewear, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light fading to spine. From jacket: Mattie was born in the spring, in the hollow stump of a tree where her mother had made a nest. At first, she and her two brothers are about the size of pennies, with undeveloped snouts and closed eyes...At five weeks old they are allowed to come with their mother to hunt for food by the light of the moon. And then Mattie, the most adventuresome of the litter, finds the garden where bread and milk have been left out in a saucer... (Inventory #: 12591scs)