Piggle-Wiggle (with a pirate on her shoulder as befits the wife of a pirate) with a small boy following her who is beckoning to (on the back panel) the small girl and boy holding hands, with a small dog bringing up the rear, all upon a background of white with green highlights, purple lettering on the spine text on flaps in purple, the front flap with a summary of this title, publisher's ads on back flap for the first two books in the series. Dust jacket has original (and correct) $2.00 price on the lower front flap, wrap-around illustration in purple with, on the front panel, Mrs. _DESCRIPTION: Green cloth boards with a vignette on the front in dark purple of a small girl and boy holding hands, dark purple lettering on the spine, plain endpapers, pictorial title page (with illustrations spreading over two pages), "First Edition" stated on copyright page (correct for first printing per Hanrahan), wonderful in-text illustrations by Maurice Sendak throughout octavo size (text block 8" tall), pagination: (1)-128. The character remained so enduringly popular that a new title was published in 2016 featuring the character's great-niece, "Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure" (N.B., from Wiki). Piggle-Wiggle, who "lives in an upside down house, smells like cookies, and was married to a pirate who buried his treasure in the backyard!" (N.B., quote from dust jacket flap, quoting the Philadelphia Inquirer).
Item #17040301 An early Sendak title, third (of five) in the series about the delightful Mrs. MacDonald, Betty Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator) Mrs.
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