Gerald Durrell. Stated first American edition. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1975. This beautiful price-clipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition with chipping on spine and top edge. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition with no writing or markings found in the book, 189 pp. Green cloth with orange lettering. Wonderfully illustrated thoughout with drawings by Pamela Johnson.
"The big brown parcel that washes up on the beach seems perfectly ordinary, that is, until it begins to speak and sing, and not in one voice but two! And the talking parcel is only the beginning of the amazing adventure of discovery that takes Penelope, Peter, and Simon from modern Greece to Mythologia, where flowers never die, where there are four different sunsets every day, and where all the famous (and infamous) mythological animals now live, ruled by absent-minded magician H.H. Junketberry." (from the jacket)
The book was translated into numerous languages and published a year after the UK edition. Also published as The Battle for Castle Cockatrice.
