PIGS IS PIGS
by ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: MCCLURE, PHILLIPS AND CO., 1907 TAN COVER WITH WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT. FRONTISPIECE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE. REST OF BOOK TIGHT AND CLEAN. 6 ILLUSTRATIONS. GOOD ARTWORK. AN ENTERTAINING, FUNNY BOOK. POPULAR IN ITS TIME. Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. "Pigs Is Pigs" is a story by American writer Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in American Illustrated Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs Is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001941
- Title
- PIGS IS PIGS
- Author
- ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
- Illustrator
- WILL CRAWFORD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MCCLURE, PHILLIPS AND CO.
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PIGS, GUINEA PIGS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Famous Authors; Miscellaneous;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.