first edition Hardcover
1956 · Boston
by BUTTERWORTH, Oliver
Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Louis Darling. Small owner name, light edgewear to the boards, thus very good in a spine-faded, about very good dustwrapper with a small shelf-number on the spine. Oft-reprinted, a beloved children's book about a New Hampshire boy whose hen hatches an enormous egg, with surprising results. Copies abound, but first editions are scarce as hen's teeth. (Inventory #: 83360)