New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. First Edition. Green cloth-wrapped octavo; 32 unnumbered pages; illustrations; 22 cm Ex-library book in very good condition with expected tape shadows to endpapers, some pen-marks and stamp on copyright page, pocket on front flyleaf;pages clean with some yellowing to edges, tight binding ; mild shelfwear to spine; jacketin very good condition under somewhat grimy library mylar (will we clean this off or .? as is?). Hardcover.
"Frances Clark Sayers, a distinguished writer, lecturer and librarian, has achieved just the right combination of gaiety and gravity-reflected in Gunnar Anderson's appealing illustrations -- in this story of a small boy whose predicament and courage will make many friends for him" -- Jacket. The first book of children's illustrations by artist Gunnar Andersen. A book about the power of names and their meanings. Sheet music for the Oscar Meyer wiener song included!
