"THIS IS THE TAILE OF A WHALE WITH A JAIL. THE JAIL WAS FOR SALE. IT WAS BOUGHT BY THE WWAHLE FOR A SOLID GOLD NAIL"
WAINER, Nora Roberts. The Whale With a Jail. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1968). Oblong octavo, original blue cloth boards, original dust jacket. $450.
First edition of this whimsical rhyming work—complete with a whale, a snail, a jail, some mail and much travail—signed by illustrator Eric Carle on the title page.
"There are more problems and more rhymes than you'd believe possible, but it all ends happily for the jail, and the snail, and the mail—and especially for the whale."
Book fine; minimal soiling and edge-wear to dust jacket, which has been laminated.