Sweet As a Pickle and Clean As a Pig

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964 Orange cloth stamped in green, previous owner's name on endpaper, indent from child's name on title page else clean; dust jacket with light wear and minuscule edge tears, price-clipped! A collection of poems for children, most with a philosophical bent. Illustrated by Rolf Gerard. McCullers' only book for children. Scarce. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1964. Inscribed to her spiritual brother and closest confidant First edition, first printing, a preeminent presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page, "For my beloved Boots, always [xxxxx]", with a drawing of an arrow-pierced heart. "Boots" was McCullers's petname for her cousin, Jordan Massee. Her biographer Virginia Carr states that theirs was… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Rolf Gerard. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, offsetting on the rear panel, and a small, narrow chip. The author's scarce children's book.

Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Edgeworn orange cloth binding fraying at bottom corner, with a repaired tear at top front gutter. Light wrinkling and tiny holes, probably from staple removal, to front free endpaper. Jacket not clipped but toned along top edge and spine-sunned. Still, a lovely little copy of a scarce title.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1964.. First edition.. 31 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Poems with illustrations by Rolf Gérard. McCullers’ last book.