The Enormous Egg

by BUTTERWORTH, Oliver

$650 · Offered by Between the Covers

Boston: Little, Brown, (1956). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Louis Darling. Fine in a very slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. 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 as scarce as hen's teeth ..... More

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