The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein [FIRST EDITION] 1976 • Harper & Row

The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein

FIRST EDITION [1976] HARPER & ROW

Presumed 80's printing with $9.95 jacket price on front panel.

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  *Condition *Note - two pairs of stained pages at rear of book [see last 2 photos] 

Dust jacket is near mint - housed in an archival quality brodart jacket protector.  Boards are pristine.  Two stained sets of pages at rear of book, the rest however look and read as new. 

From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of the Giving Tree and Where The Sidewalk Ends, comes the Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment. 

"It was missing a piece. And it was not happy."

What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming fable can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages.

"So it set off in search
of its missing piece.
And as it rolled
it sang this song—
'Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece."