New York: Viking Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670555010 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one nick to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. In the Pig Plantagenet author Allen Andrews has created a work of such freshness and breadth of appeal that it transcends category. Michael Foreman's illustrations - at once elegant and whimiscal - capture perfectly the wit and liveliness of a book that can be read both as an allegory about conservation and as a work of completely original - and most definitely adult - humor." " Allen Andrews: UK writer whose fantasy has been restricted to the Plantagenet Animal-Fantasy sequence – The Pig Plantagenet (1980) and Castle Crespin (1982) – featuring a pig named Plantagenet. The setting is 13th-century France. The forest is endangered by the lord of the château, who wishes to massacre the local family of boars. Plantagenet saves them; but they must now Quest for a safe place." .

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Bookseller: S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: A33201
Title: The Pig Plantagenet
Author: Andrews, Allen
Illustrator: Michael Foreman
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0670555010
ISBN 13: 9780670555017
Publisher: Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1981
Keywords: 0670555010, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Allen Andrews, Michael Foreman, Pigs, Allegory, Conservation, Humor, Science Fiction

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About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.

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