THE HEADLONG CAREER AND WOEFUL ENDING OF PRECOCIOUS PIGGY

by Thomas Hood, Tom Hood

$850 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Boston: Thornton and Moffitt, 1859. First American edition of the humorous and somewhat surreal tale of a posh humanized pig, his adventures in the city, published the same year as the London first. Very good. Item #36685 Thomas Hood is known for his humorous poems that appeared in Punch, although he also wrote more sentimental pieces. PRECOCIOUS PIGGY was originally a story he told to his young son Tom and daughter

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