Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.

Price: $1,500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A modest stain on the rear board else near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a small corresponding stain on the rear panel and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Inscribed by the author: "To John Orban with best wishes of Freddy and Walter R. Brooks." Our favorite title among the highly collectible series of books about Freddy, an intelligent pig-detective. Freddy is embroiled in the search for six missing Martians who are being forced to travel the country as a barnstorming baseball team. A significant highspot in porcine-detective literature, and exceptionally scarce signed.

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Item #99237 Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars. Walter R. BROOKS.
Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars

Walter R. Brooks
birth name: Walter R. Brooks
born: 01/09/1886
died: 08/17/1958

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Biography

Children's book author, Creator of the Freddy the Pig series which took place on the Bean Farm in upstate New York. His early short story "Ed Signs the Pledge" was the basis for the *Mister Ed* television series.more