His First Book, Inscribed
"Pigs is Pigs"
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906.
Price: $400.00
About the item
Crawford, Will. Second (?) edition. Illustrated with 5 plates after drawings by Will Crawford. 1 vols. 12mo. His First Book, Inscribed. Pictorial brown and white cloth. Very good, in quarter morocco slipcase with chemise.
Item #18057
A classic of American humor, inscribed on the flyleaf:
"I like to think about the air
It is so very queer;
It is around us everywhere
All through the atmosphere.
Ellis Parker Butler
1921 [with pig monogram]
" ... his reputation rests almost solely on one slight but hilarious contribution, Pigs is Pigs." - Kunitz & Haycraft.
