UNGERER, Tomi. Crictor. NY: Harper & Brothers [1958]. 4to, [32]pp. Black cloth spine with color pictorial boards. Color illustrations on every page. Upper and lower edges a bit rubbed, rear board a tad discolored, endpapers a tad browned near hinges, light handsoiling at margins of a few pages, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (folds and edges rubbed, some slight soiling and wear). With a bookplate signed by the author/artist, Tomi Ungerer, laid in!

First edition of the only Tomi Ungerer title to have never been out-of-print since its first release in the US. The charming story of Crictor, the loveable and affectionate pet snake who saves the day when he thwarts a robbery! Crictor is this beloved author’s third book, published just one year after his debut picture book The Mellops Go Flying.