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The Scroobious Pip by Edward Lear & illustrated by Nancy E. Burkert [FIRST EDITION] 1968 • Harper & Row

The Scroobious Pip by Edward Lear & illustrated by Nancy E. Burkert [FIRST EDITION] 1968 • Harper & Row

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Scroobious Pip by Edward Lear, completed by Ogden Nash & illustrated by Nancy E. Burkert

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1968] HARPER & ROW

Beautiful near mint 1st with full color illustrations by James and the Giant Peach illustrator Nancy Burkert. 

Oversized XL hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket is excellent; one tiny sealed edge tear and some faint soiling.  

Book itself lis mint; looks and reads like new. 

The beloved nineteenth-century writer Edward Lear is the master of nonsense rhymes and limericks. The Scroobious Pip is one of his most engaging poems, in which all the animals in the world gather around a strange, inscrutable creature-part bird, beast, insect, and fish-who calls himself the Scroobious Pip.

The handwritten manuscript of this intriguing poem was discovered in a nearly finished state among Lear's papers after his death. In this edition the missing lines and phrases have been delightfully completed by the inimitable Ogden Nash.
Children are sure to be enraptured with Nancy Burkert's exquisite line drawings and full-color paintings, for the artist has lovingly delineated all the teeming forms of life Lear celebrates in his poem and has set them down on an enchanted shore in Arcady. 
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